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FDR

March 20, 2024April 12, 2021

APRIL 12, 1945 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on April 12, 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was seated in the living room of the Little White House at his beloved Warm Springs, Georgia therapeutic spa. Three days earlier, Lucy Mercer Rutherford arrived from Aitken, South Carolina, accompanied by portrait artist …

Remember Korea

February 2, 2024July 13, 2020

RESOLVE AND RESTRAINT We remember Korea as an example of American resolve and restraint. Firstly, seventy years ago, in January 1950, U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied that the Korean Peninsula lay outside the defense perimeter of the United States. Then, on Sunday July 25, 1950, at 4:00 …