There's a magic to the project. That the task is daunting makes it worthy of the man it honors, who guided the nation through the Depression, the New Deal and a world war.
-The New York Times, Editorial, November 5, 2007
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This Day in History During Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed. 1940 - A force of German Ju-88 bombers attacked Suez, Egypt, from bases in Crete. 1941 - Vichy French Foreign Legionaries signed an armistice in Damascus, which allowed them to join the Free French Foreign Legion. 1945 - American battleships and cruisers bombarded the Japanese home islands for the first time. |


