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F. D. Roosevelt 1882-1945
32nd President of the United States
1933-1945

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TITLE:
[Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]
CALL NUMBER:
PRES FILE - Roosevelt, Franklin Delano--Photos--Bust [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
LC-USZ62-117121 (b&w film copy neg. of detail)
LC-USZ62-26759 (b&w film copy neg.)
No known restrictions on publication.
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.
CREATED/PUBLISHED:
c1933 Dec 27.
CREATOR:
Goldensky, Elias, 1868-1943, photographer.
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Presidential communications can be hit or miss.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
used “fireside chats” in the Depression.
Photograph: Marie Hansen-Life
Time Inc.
In Economic Drama, Bush Is Largely Offstage
NYT
3 April 2008
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/
washington/03bush.html

Franklin D Roosevelt
throws out the first ball of the third game
of the 1933 World Series at Griffith Stadium, Washington DC.
Photograph: B Bennett
Getty Images
Franklin D Roosevelt:
A Political Life by Robert Dallek
– a stark reminder of strong leadership
G
20 December 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/29/
franklin-d-roosevelt-a-political-life-by-robert-dallek-review
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882-1945
32nd President of the United
States 1933-1945
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/
great-speeches-franklin-d-roosevelt
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/
january-20/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/05/
dana-frank-great-depression
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/
944568766/as-biden-prepares-to-take-office-
fdrs-presidential-transition-offers-lessons
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/
opinion/sunday/dorie-miller-navy-ship.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/
opinion/trump-coronavirus-new-deal.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/
arts/new-york-historical-society-norman-rockwell-four-freedoms.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/29/
franklin-d-roosevelt-a-political-life-by-robert-dallek-review
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/
books/review/franklin-d-roosevelt-biography-robert-dallek.html
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/16/
557338355/im-an-american-radio-show-promoted-inclusion-before-world-war-ii
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/
books/book-tries-for-balanced-view-on-roosevelt-and-jews.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/
books/review/Brinkley-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/
opinion/03smith.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/apr/13/
secondworldwar.usa
Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud
1875-1953
known in the Western world mononymously
as Ibn Saud
Arab political and religious leader
who founded Saudi Arabia – the third Saudi
state –
and reigned as its first king from 23
September 1932
until his death in 1953.
He had ruled parts of the kingdom since 1902,
having previously been Emir, Sultan, and King
of Nejd,
and King of Hejaz.
(...)
Petroleum was discovered in Saudi Arabia
in 1938 by SoCal,
after Ibn Saud granted a concession in 1933.
Through his advisers
St John Philby and Ameen Rihani,
Ibn Saud granted substantial authority
over Saudi oil fields to American oil
companies
in 1944.
Beginning in 1915,
he signed a "friendship and cooperation" pact
with Britain
to keep his militia in line and cease
any further attacks against their
protectorates
for whom they were responsible.
(...)
Ibn Saud positioned Saudi Arabia
as neutral in World War II,
but was generally considered to favor the
Allies.
However, in 1938,
when an attack on a main British pipeline
in the Kingdom of Iraq
was found to be connected
to the German Ambassador, Fritz Grobba,
Ibn Saud provided Grobba with refuge.
It was reported
that he had been disfavoring the British as of
1937.
In the last stage of the war,
Ibn Saud met significant political figures.
One of these meetings, which lasted for three
days,
was with U.S. president Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
on 14 February 1945.
The meeting took place on board USS Quincy
in the Great Bitter Lake segment of the Suez
Canal.
The meeting laid down the basis of the future
relations
between the two countries.
The other meeting was
with British prime minister Winston Churchill
in the Grand Hotel du Lac
on the shores of the Fayyoun Oasis,
fifty miles south of Cairo, in February 1945.
Saudis report that the meeting heavily focused
on the Palestine problem
and was unproductive in terms of its outcomes,
in contrast to that with Roosevelt.
Wikipedia - 6 January 2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Saud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Saud
Saudi Arabia gains strategic importance
during World War II
Although Saudi Arabia
officially maintained neutrality
through most of the war,
the U.S. began to court the kingdom
as it realized the strategic importance
of Saudi oil reserves.
In 1943,
President Franklin Roosevelt made Saudi Arabia
eligible for Lend-Lease assistance
by declaring the defense of Saudi Arabia
of vital interest to the U.S.
In 1945,
King Abdel Aziz and President Roosevelt
cemented the tacit oil-for-security
relationship
when they met aboard the USS Quincy
in the Suez Canal.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/
saudi/etc/cron.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/
saudi/etc/cron.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:FDR_on_quincy.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ibn_Saud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ibn_Saud_of_Saudi_Arabia
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32965230 - 8 June 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/
arts/television/the-american-love-affair-with-the-saudis.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/820515.stm
https://www.nytimes.com/1945/10/20/
archives/arab-press-hails-roosevelt-letter-king-ibn-saud-had-threatened-to.html
After Japan
bombed
Pearl Harbor
on Dec. 7, 1941,
the United
States government
forced 120,000
Japanese-Americans
on the West
Coast out of their homes
and into
internment camps
for the
duration of the war.
(...)
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed an
executive order
in February
1942 [ On Feb. 19, 1942 ]
that made the
relocation possible
by declaring
certain parts of the West
to be military
zones
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/
bob-fletcher-dies-at-101-saved-farms-of-interned-japanese-americans.html
https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/
japanese-internment.html
https://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/manz/
https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/38/japanese-american-internment/
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/japanese-american-internment/
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/
1077276293/george-takei-got-reparations-
he-says-they-strengthen-the-integrity-of-america
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/
magazine/japanese-internment-end-wwii-trailer-parks.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/
magazine/little-tokyo-bunkado-los-angeles-japanese.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/24/
820181127/the-unlikely-story-
behind-japanese-americans-campaign-for-reparations
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/
807762997/in-an-internment-camp-maggie-the-magpie-lifted-spirits
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/
807428171/california-lawmakers-expected-to-apologize-
for-u-s-internment-of-japanese-americ
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/
t-magazine/japanese-american-novel.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/
arts/television/the-terror-george-takei.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/
742558996/george-takei-recalls-time-in-an-american-internment-camp-in-
they-called-us-enemy
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/26/
636107892/some-japanese-americans-wrongfully-imprisoned-during-wwii-
oppose-census-question
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/
obituaries/aiko-herzig-yoshinaga-japanese-americans-internment-relocation-
dies-at-93.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/
opinion/when-america-incarcerated-my-family.html
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=HdphFBNfQG4 -
NYT - 22 June 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/06/
multimedia/returning-to-manzanar.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/06/20/
621972727/for-some-japanese-americans-border-separations-are-deja-vu
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/
100000005024375/japanese-internment-tule-lake-360-video.html - May 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/29/
485574562/walking-in-their-footsteps-at-a-former-japanese-internment-camp
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/
a-lesson-from-the-1940s-america-is-capable-of-being-un-american/
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/02/21/
516277507/the-other-wwii-american-internment-atrocity
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/19/
515822019/farming-behind-barbed-wire-japanese-americans-remember-wwii-incarceration
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/19/
516115506/75-years-later-americans-still-bear-scars-of-internment-order
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/
515563775/couple-moves-on-from-silence-about-time-in-japanese-internment-camps
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/
rarely-seen-photos-japanese-internment-dorothea-lange
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/30/
512488821/its-fred-korematsu-day-celebrating-a-foe-of-u-s-internment-camps
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/
opinion/1942-all-over-again.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/
japanese-americans-imprisoned-but-unbowed-during-world-war-two/
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/09/
455337926/george-takei-debuts-on-broadway-in-allegiance
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/
bob-fletcher-dies-at-101-saved-farms-of-interned-japanese-americans.html
In 1941,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
promulgated Executive Order 8802,
which prohibited racial
discrimination
in the employment of workers in
defense industries
and established the Fair
Employment Practices Commission
to implement the order.
Assailing the order,
Representative Jamie Whitten, a
Mississippi segregationist,
complained that it would not so
much prevent unfairness
as “discriminate in favor of the
negro”
— this at a time when anti-Black
discrimination
across the social landscape was
blatant, rife and,
to a large extent, fully lawful.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/
opinion/resistance-black-advancement-affirmative-action.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/
opinion/resistance-black-advancement-affirmative-action.html
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