On this day, January 6, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, Donkees, in General Discussion

Wed Jan 6, 2021, 10:54 AM: January 6, 2021 is the 80th anniversary of FDR's FOUR FREEDOMS Speech

FDR exhorted Congress to defend “Four Freedoms” today 1941–eighty years to the day before violent marauders and democracy-haters invaded that same House Chamber on January 6, 2021:

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Fri Jan 6, 2023: On this day, January 6, 1941, Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms."

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Fri Jan 6, 2023: Video:

Four Freedoms Speech

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Two minute clip of Paramount newsreel footage of President Roosevelt's 1941 Annual Message to Congress (Film ID 201-823-3-1) synced with audio from the Roosevelt Library Audio Recordings Collection (http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/arch.... Film copyrighted by Sherman Grinberg Film Library (http://www.shermangrinberg.com/).

Wed Jan 6, 2016: Roosevelt's State of the Union, January 6, 1941

State of the Union, History

State of the Union (Four Freedoms) (January 6, 1941)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's January 6, 1941 State of the Union Address introducing the theme of the Four Freedoms (starting at 32:02)

[bucolic_frolic]

1. was nice while it lasted. 84 years is a good run. /nt

[BoRaGard]

2. Thank you

[SheltieLover]

3. K&R

[EYESORE 9001]

4. There are Four Freedoms monuments in two cities where I've lived

Cleveland, Ohio and Evansville, Indiana.

[MichMan]

5. Less than 13 months later, people of Japanese ancestry were ordered into concentration camps n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Oh, I'll get to that. It's coming up at the end of the month.

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Thanks for the reminder, and happy snowy (here) new year.