THE CONSTITUTION OUGHT TO BE READ AGAIN & AGAIN

JFK+50:  Volume 7, No. 2205

FDR: CONSERVATIVE & HONORABLE BY TODAY'S STANDARDS

Hyde Park, NY (JFK+50) The future 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt*, was born here in Hyde Park 135 years ago today, January 30, 1882, to James R. and Sara Delano Roosevelt.  FDR, elected four times, served as POTUS longer than any president ever had or ever will.

Bill Federer, writing for worldnetdaily.com, argues that Mr. Roosevelt, a liberal in his day, "appears to be conservative" by today's standards.   To support his point, Federer lists the following statements by FDR...

The first is applicable to today's discussion on the constitutionally of a presidential executive order on immigration...

"I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States.  Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again."

And in comparison to the modern discourse of America's political landscape...

"I can't talk about my opponent the way I would like to because...I am a Christian...and I don't believe there is anything to be gained in saying dreadful things about other people."

*Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) was a graduate of Groton and Harvard &  attended Columbia Law School, passing the NY bar in 1907.  FDR was elected to the NY State Senate, appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913, 

FDR ran as the Vice-Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party in 1920, served as Governor of New York from 1929 to 1932 and served as POTUS from 1933 until his death on April 12, 1945.  FDR led the Nation out of the Great Depression and through most of World War II.

SOURCE

"Why FDR is Considered Conservative by Today's Standards," by Bill Federer, January 2017, World Net Daily, www.wnd.com/

FDR Memorial

September 25, 2011

Photo by John White 

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT LAID TO REST

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT LAID TO REST

Hyde Park (JFK+50) Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was laid to rest 52 years ago today, November 10, 1962, in the rose garden of the Roosevelt estate here at Hyde Park beside her late husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Funeral services, held at St. James Church, were attended by President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy.  Upon receiving news of Mrs. Roosevelt's death, the President issued the following statement:

"One of the great leaders in the history of this country has passed.  Her loss will be deeply felt by all those who admire her tireless idealism.  She has been an inspiration and a friend."

After FDR's death, Mrs. Roosevelt was appointed as a delegate to the United Nations by President Harry S Truman.

She served in that capacity from 1945 to 1952 during which time she chaired a committee which issued "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and earned the title "First Lady of the World".

USMC BORN 239 YEARS AGO TODAY

Philadelphia (JFK+50) The United States Marine Corps celebrates its 239th birthday today having been created by a resolution passed by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775.

Captain Samuel Nicholas formed the two battalions as naval infantry. Although the resolution, drafted by John Adams of Massachusetts, created the Corps, it was a bill signed by President John Adams in July 1798 that made the USMC a permanent military force.

The Corps, which has served in every major American conflict, is justly proud of its most famous action in the War with the Barbary Pirates in which they captured Tripoli.

"From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
We fight our Nation's battles
On the land and on the sea."

The Marines Hymn

In a speech at the Marine Recruiting Department in San Diego on June 6, 1963, President John F. Kennedy said...

"The old Corps may have been a great Corps, but the new Corps is just as good."

JFK Greets Marine and Family

Cherry Point Marine Air Station

North Carolina (1962)

Photo by R.L. Knudsen

JFK Library Image