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Sunday in NYC

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Took the Hudson RR line from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central. 7:00am

Subway to Ferry to tour Liberty and Ellis Island.

Hamilton

Roosevelt House on E. 65th Street.

Grand Central

Train back to Poughkeepsie as sun sets over Hudson.

Hudson RR Line…

https://youtu.be/Hl6Rl9N2NyA

On Ellis Island. Looking back toward Lady Liberty

East 65th Street. Townhouses of Sara Delano Roosevelt, #47, Franklin and Eleanor #49

Shared entry hall of the connected townhouse

Clock in Grand Central Ready to catch 7:50 train

Train ride back to Poughkeepsie after day in the city

Catskills, Hudson Valley Artists, Olana

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Day 1.
Flew into Albany and headed down the Hudson Valley.

Church home. Described as Persian design

Contemplate

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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

This and That…

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D-Train Whistle

**Ranger Jerry. Responsible for giving me the “handle”**

“**D-Train”**

**The “Gingerbread House” where Park Rangers meet and start their day.**
**It was the home of Mr. Plogg**. **Mr. Plog helped with the burial of FDR and continued to maintain the property when it became a National Park. He died in April of 1952 after working here for over 55 years.**

**This frame, located in the stables, once held the tail of Gloster, a race horse.**
**According to some, Gloster died in a train wreck while being shipped to California in spring 1874, and a stable hand removed and mounted his tail.**

**Years later, the tail was presented to Roosevelt in 1930, who hung it in the governor’s mansion and subsequently his White House bedroom as a memento** **of his Hudson Valley boyhood**.

**I was told that an animal rights group protested this practice and thus the tail was removed.**

**Henry Loustau’s kinetic sculpture,** **The Four Freedoms**

**How it would look if I had built it.**

**FDR’s wheelchair with attached ashtray**

**Taking a photo in the mirror that Secret Service installed outside FDR’s bedroom** **in order to see who was coming down the hall**

**High-Tech**

**Freedom Court.**
**Human forms, covered in graffiti, were cut from sections of the Berlin Wall, after the collapse of East Germany.**
**Busts of Churchill and FDR**

**Friends from Chapel Hill touring the FDR Library.**

**I gave the a tour lasting from 11-4 with a short break for lunch** ..whew

**Secret Drawer in FDR’s desk used in the Oval Office**.If you push the top drawer, this pops out.

**FBI kept a file on ER from 1924-1972**

**FDR’s sketch for plan for his Presidential Library.**
**Opened June 1941.**

**The First Presidential Library and the Only Presidential Library used by a Predident still in office.**

**3 of Bill Leuchtenburg’s books on display. He is revered in FDR land**

**William E. Leuchtenburg, Historians Review Committee**

FDR–Tree Farmer

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“There is nothing in nature I am as fond of as a tree.” – FDR, 1936

On FDR’s Voter Registration card, he listed his Occupation as Tree Farmer. His favorite tree was the Tulip Popular. The Roosevelt Family is Dutch.

**Markers to keep you on the right trail 😉**

Following in the footsteps of Theodore Roosevelt, FDR was a committed conservationist.

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

“By the 1930s 20,000 – 55,000 trees were being planted on his land each year, a practice that continued until FDR’s death in 1945.” Kevin Oldenburg, Park Ranger at FDR Historic Site, Hyde Park.

For more information, here is an excellent article written by Kevin

https://www.nps.gov/elro/blogs/franklin-d-roosevelt-tree-farmer.htm

**In his Will, FDR stated that if a tree had to be removed that a new one be planted in its place.**

**Down the original driveway from Albany Post Road to the home, Springwood.**

**Original driveway gates with trees across Albany Post Rd on land that once was part of the Estate**

Apple trees..

View across Hudson Valley and because of the tree growth, the Mid-Hudson Bridge is no longer visible from Springwood.

The President’s Health. FDR’s Final Campaign

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**Franklin D. Roosevelt accepts nomination by DNC at Chicago from train at San Diego, California with Mr. & Mrs. James Roosevelt, with his cardiologist**,**Dr. Bruenn**
**July 20 1944.**

**Speech in August 1944. While speaking, FDR suffered an attack of Angina. His cardiologist, said “scared the hell out of us.”**

**“his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since”.**
**Sept 1944**

**Campaign in the rain in NYC, October 1944.**

**7 cigarettes remained in this pack. A heavy smoker averaging 3 packs a day. Camel was preferred brand.**

**Yalta, Boat Cloak, Cigarette February 1945**

**Address to Congress,**
**“Ten Pounds of Steel”**
**March 1945**

**Final photos of FDR, taken in Warm Springs, Georgia on April 11, 1945.**
**FDR died the next day, April 12. 1945**

**Archivist at FDR Library “think” that FDR is holding some official papers from the State Dept. that had arrived in the mail.**

**While in Warm Springs, FDR worked on what would become the “Undelivered Address”.**

**His Final words to Americans, in his shaky handwriting,**

“**The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.**“

**Dr. Bruenn note of FDR death**.

**3:35 pm**, **April 12, 1945**

**“massive cerebral hemorrhage”**

**NY Herald…President Roosevelt Is Dead.**

**Burial in the Rose Garden,**
**Hyde Park, April 15, 1945**

The War Campaign Commander-in-Chief.

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**July 1944 with MacArthur and Nimitz.**
**Discussion on best plan to win the war in the Pacific**

**Anna accompanies FDR to Yalta, Feb. 1945**

**Stalin’s gift to FDR. A pack of Russian cigerattes** **and bearskin and leather gloves**

**Among the discussions at Yalta was the plan to create a organization to preserve world peace.**
**The United Nations**

**FDR’s sketch of a plan for creation on the United Nations. Drew in Teheran, 1943**

**FDR address to Congress after returning from Yalta. March 1, 1945. FDR apologized for speaking while seated**
**10 pounds of steel**

FDR’s Final Campaign. Introduction.

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This special exhibit in the FDR Presidential Library/Museum is composed of three simultaneous campaigns that FDR dealt with in last year of his life.

I decided to separate into 3 blogs. My mind, unlike FDR’s, could not juggle all 3 as 1.

A friend wrote..so clever..

Sorta like the Holy Trinity? ☺️

(Sorry—couldn’t resist! 🤭)

The Political Campaign

The War Campaign

Personal Health Campaign.

The exhibit will remain through 2022.