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 Presidency1939 - The movie "Wizard of Oz" opened. 1943 - The Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina. 1945 - The nationalists of Indonesia declared their independence from the Netherlands. |


