FDR Library

FDR Library

@FDRLibrary

Library Director tweets about the first presidential library and museum

Hyde Park, New York http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

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1936: FDR won 60.8 % of the vote - 27, 752, 869 votes. The Democrats gained 12 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate.

1936: FDR’s 1936 victory was the biggest electoral landslide in American history. He lost only two states - Maine & Vermont

1936: The forces of “organized money ... are unanimous in their hate for me -- and I welcome their hatred.” FDR

1936: FDR's opponent in this election was Kansas Governor Alfred Landon, a progressive Republican who opposed the New Deal

Students of PS 22 of Staten Island who will be singing "Home" at the Four Freedoms Park dedication

1936: America was climbing slowly out of the Depression. Unemployment remained high, but had fallen from 25% to 17%.

FDR Library Acting Director Lynn Bassanese and Kathleen Durham of ERVK at the dedication ceremony

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