In this issue: The Four Freedoms with Harvey Kaye; Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt; Wyoming #ArtifactRoadTrip; the First Lady Examines Gold Fish in a Bowl; a New Year's Message from Churchill to FDR.
Harvey Kaye, Emeritus Professor of Democracy at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, examines how the Four Freedoms came to define America’s purpose, promise, and responsibility to the world. A conversation with FDR Library Director William Harris.
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Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt
October 2018
When the editors of Ladies Home Journal asked the First Lady to write her If You Ask Me column in 1941, they never envisioned it would become two-way conversation about almost every aspect of American life. Historian Mary Jo Binker examines two decades of advice from Eleanor Roosevelt. (57:12 minutes)
"Chuck Wagon Serenade" by Manuel Abraham Bromberg. This painting for the Greybull, Wyoming Post Office, appears to be a study for Bromberg’s winning entry to the Fine Arts Section of the Federal Works Agency's 48 State Mural Competition.
In her first My Day column of 1937, the First Lady wrote: "I suppose on New Year's Eve one should look back on the year that has passed and forward to the New Year and it should inspire one with some great thoughts. However, at the moment I am watching some gold fish in a bowl and all I can think of is that even gold fish act in rather human fashion now and then."
Among FDR's critical Diplomatic Correspondence files for "Military Situation: Great Britain" is a poignant telegram sent by the British Prime Minister to FDR, January 1, 1941. Inspired by FDR's December 1940 fireside chat on national security, Churchill expressed gratitude and hopeful confidence on behalf of the people of the United Kingdom.
"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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