Speech

By: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date: March 17, 1941

Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery." March 17, 1941. Reprinted online at http://www.nara.gov/ (accessed May 17, 2002).

About the Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was born in Hyde Park, New York. He attended Groton School, Harvard University, and Columbia University Law School. He served as the assistant secretary of the navy under Woodrow Wilson and was the 1920 Democratic vice presidential canidate. Crippled by polio in 1921, he perservered and was twice elected governor of New York State in the 1920s. In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, he was elected president of the United States. He was reelected president in 1936, 1940, and 1944—the only president to ever win a third or fourth term—and died in office in April...