Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
When Alan Tatum was nine, he wrote a letter to Governor Roosevelt after meeting him and his aide, Tom Farley, during the presidential campaign. The letter was never sent and left in his old apartment building, but when the building was torn down, the letter was found and finally mailed by the person who found it. Charlie Young came across the letter and had Tatum, as well as his son Ted, brought to the White House to meet President Bartlet.[1]
In 1936 he was the last sitting president to visit an Indian Reservation.[2]
He passed the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, loaning arms to Russia and Britain in expectation that they would repay the United States when World War II was over. He said, "If your neighbor's house is on fire, you don't haggle over the price of your garden hose."[3]
Roosevelt had invited Ronald Crookshank's unit to the White House.[4]
Sam Seaborn mistakenly said the Roosevelt Room in the White House was named Franklin, when in fact it was named after his fifth cousin and fellow president Theodore, and that he was the eighteenth president.[5] In 2002 President Bartlet was the first Democratic incumbent since Roosevelt to run unchallenged in the primaries.[6]
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