#franklin roosevelt

[empirearchives]

No one speak to me

#Alexandre Walewski #Walewski #source: #Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt 1882-1905 #Geoffrey C. Ward #Ward #FDR #franklin roosevelt #napoleonic era #napoleon #Napoleon’s sons #Napoleon’s children #napoleon bonaparte #first french empire #french empire #19th century #napoleonic #history #book #my pic #Roosevelt #french history

[contemplatingoutlander]

This is a seminal opinion column by Jamelle Bouie. Consequently, the above link is a gift 🎁 link, so anyone can read the article in full, even if they do not subscribe to The New York Times. Here are some excerpts from the article:

In his 1941 State of the Union address, Franklin Roosevelt said there was “nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy” and that he, along with the nation, looked forward to “a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.” Famously, those freedoms were the “freedom of speech and expression,” the “freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,” the “freedom from want” and the “freedom from fear.” Those freedoms were the guiding lights of his New Deal, and they remained the guiding lights of his administration through the trials of World War II.

There are, I think, four freedoms we can glean from the Republican program.

There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles.

There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit.

There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class.

And there is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people.

Roosevelt’s four freedoms were the building blocks of a humane society — a social democratic aspiration for egalitarians then and now. These Republican freedoms are also building blocks not of a humane society but of a rigid and hierarchical one, in which you can either dominate or be dominated.

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#the four freedoms #democrats vs republicans #franklin roosevelt #jamelle bouie #the new york times #gift link #my charts

[vintage-every-day]

U.S. soldiers fill the pews of Notre Dame, Paris, during a memorial service for President Franklin Roosevelt on April 16, 1945.

#vintage #paris #franklin roosevelt

[jollyrebelwinner]

#wwii #ww2 #meme #winston churchill #franklin roosevelt #poland #europe #communism #capitalism #boomer truth mythology

[thehalfwaypost]

#fdr #roosevelt #franklin roosevelt #democrats #liberals

[coolthingsguyslike]

#Franklin Roosevelt #FDR #1913 #New York #dapper #old school cool #three piece suit #bowler hat #POTUS

[wellconstructedsentences]

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

Franklin Roosevelt

#franklin roosevelt

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Black Roosevelt supporters leaving Harlem to campaign across New York state in October 1936. Lehman was also running for re-election, in his case for governor. He had succeeded FDR when he was elected president in 1932.

Photo: Acme via the NY Times

#vintage New York #1930s #vintage Harlem #elections #election campaign #Herbert Lehman #Franklin Roosevelt #FDR #campaigning

[fatmagic]

#liberace #pam dawber #Ricky Schroder #FDR #franklin roosevelt #gif

[wannabesucessful]

Happy Birthday Ernie!

#sesame street #muppets #bert and ernie #bert sesame street #ernie sesame street #cookie monster #herry monster #franklin roosevelt #sherlock hemlock #big bird #birthday

[gatabella]

Deanna Durbin and Lana Turner at Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday celebration, early 1940s

#deanna durbin #lana turner #franklin roosevelt

[empirearchives]

The Walewskis and Roosevelts

The Roosevelts befriended Napoleon’s grandchildren, the children of Alexandre Walewski. Walewski not only looked a lot like Napoleon, but apparently had a very similar voice.

Source: Geoffrey C. Ward, Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, Pg. 41

To me, there’s something so nice about Napoleon’s grandbabies playing in the wildflowers & his son pleasantly eating cherries and milk 🥹

#Unfortunately the grandson here died in World War I at the age of 68. #Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt #Geoffrey C. Ward #Before the Trumpet #Alexandre walewski #walewski #Napoleon #Roosevelt #franklin roosevelt #napoleonic era #napoleonic #napoleon bonaparte #quotes #Napoleon’s family #Napoleon’s children #second empire #2nd empire #2nd French empire #second french empire

[culturevulturette]

Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#memorial day #quotations #franklin roosevelt

[ancientcoins]

#Selma Burke #coins #US coins #not ancient #but cool #dime #franklin roosevelt #numismatics

[republicanidiots]

#fdr #Franklin Roosevelt #Democrat #politics #givernment #kindness #social security #Republican

[jtylersyck]

Do you have a particular source of inspiration when it comes to your style?

Benoit Blanc in the first Knives Out. King Charles. Young Dumbledore. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Who are some of your guys?

#ask me anons #answers #men's fashion #benoit blanc #fdr #franklin delano roosevelt #franklin roosevelt #charles iii #prince charles #daniel patrick moynihan #patrick moynihan #moynihan