All 8 Uses
Franklin D. Roosevelt
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- The following day, most of those same listeners, including hundreds of thousands of children, tuned in again to hear President Franklin Roosevelt intone the six-and-a-half-minute speech whose key phrases would resound in American folklore: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!†
Chpt 3.Franklin Roosevelt = 32nd President of the United States -- let the country through The Great Depression & World War II
- This was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.†
Chpt 5. *
- On the second-to-last day of March 1945, in one of his last acts as President before he died two weeks later, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a secret order to Marine Headquarters in the Pacific.†
Chpt 14.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.†
Chpt 15.
- Charles Sweeney, who later dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, would write that his Catholic mother allowed only two images to be hung on the family's dining-room wall: Jesus and FDR.†
Chpt 12.
- He composed it into a telegram that he sent to FDR that same day.†
Chpt 13.
- At a Thanksgiving dinner at our family home in 1975, I was only too happy to enlighten my father and the assembled family as to the "real" reason we fought Japan in World War II: American insensitivity to Japanese culture and FDR's severing of their oil lines forced Japan—an industrial beached whale—to attack Pearl Harbor in self-defense.†
Chpt 20.
- On her wall hung two images: Jesus and FDR.†
Chpt Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(Franklin D. Roosevelt) 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)