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3. I attended a series of lectures at Springwood put on by Cornell on the Four...

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Tue Jan 6, 2026, 01:15 PM

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...Freedoms speech.

Springwood is the National Historical site that was FDRs home for his entire life. It is a very moving place and includes his Presidential Library as well as displays of FDR's very extensive personal library. (The Orange Pedophile's library, by contrast, probably consists of a copy of Mein Kampf and back issues of Penthouse magazine.)

The talks in the all day event were very interesting. Two ex-Congress persons attended. One was ex-congressman Steve Isreal, who owns a bookstore on Long Island. He gave away free books during the event related to the Four Freedoms.

The "Freedom" that means the most to me is "Freedom from Want," once a defining goal of our party, particularly as defined by the person I regard as the greatest Democrat of the 20th, perhaps any, century, Eleanor Roosevelt.

When I visited her nearby home, separate from Springwood, nearby Valkill, a comparatively modest home, I was so moved that I almost wept.

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On this day, January 6, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jan 6 OP

That "coincidence" escaped me and leads me to conclude the J6 anniversary was planned. bucolic_frolic Jan 6 #1

It might have been planned for that reason, but I think it was because this was a pivotal point erronis Jan 6 #2

I attended a series of lectures at Springwood put on by Cornell on the Four... NNadir Jan 6 #3

I will agree with your assessment of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her husband gets the headlines but she was the purpose Deuxcents Jan 6 #4