Easton Press: President Franklin Roosevelt: Speeches: Letters: World War II

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Easton Press: President Franklin Roosevelt: Speeches: Letters: World War II:
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Easton Press FULL leather edition of\"Franklin Roosevelt: Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences, and Letters,\" Edited with an introduction by Basil Rauch, one of the LIBRARY OFTHE PRESIDENTSseries, published in 1989. Collector\'s Notes is included. Bound in anavy blueleather, the book hasdecorative end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---inFINE condition. Franklin Roosevelt, who lived from 1882-1945, and was President of the U.S. from 1933-1945, was born in New York, educated at HARVARD and COLUMBIA Law School. He married his cousin Eleanor Roosevelt, and they were parents to five children. Throughout his papers, Roosevelt\'s development into a champion of the common man can be clearly traced. Oddly enough, he never seemed to take his patrician upbringing too seriously, preferring, as he penned, \"nice souls. . . not the kind who would insist on full dress for dinner every evening.\" He wrote little of his bout with polio, a tragedy that would have permanently waylayed other men. While in office, Roosevelt willingly submitted himself to the questioning of the press and his candor kept him on the front pages of newspapers across the country. He held over 986 press conferences and, during the eleventh, set up these ground rules: \"I am told whatI am about to do will become impossible, but I am going to try it.\" We are not going to have any more written question. I see no reason why I should not talk to your ladies and gentlemen off the record just the way I have been doing in Albany.\" President Roosevelt often sent his wife, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, to be his ambassador, visiting military bases and holding her own press conferences.Included are a telegram to HITLER, a letter to POPE PIUS XII, a message to EMPEROR HIROHITO, memos to CORDELL HULL, along with transcripts from the President\'s famous \"Fireside Chats\" and numerous speeches from all four of his campaigns. And of course his war message to Congress on December 8, 1941. \"Yesterday, December 7, 1941---a date which will live in infamy---the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of JAPAN. \"Thirty-three minutes after F.D.R. uttered those words, war was declared on Japan by joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives. The YALTA CONFERENCE was Roosevelt\'s last peace initiative. Basil Lauch was a long-time Professor of History at Bernard College.