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ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano: Original Memorial at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Address: Pennsylvania Ave. & 9th St NWIn front of National Archives Nearest Metro: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter (Yellow - Green)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 56940004 (dcMem ID #582)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1882 - 1945
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With the National Archives in the background.
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In September 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called his frind, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter, to the White House and asked the Justice to remember the wish he then expressed:
"If any memorial is erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be. I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this (putting his hand on his desk) and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives Building. I don't care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain without any ornamentation, with the simple carving, 'In Memory of ____'."
A small group of living associates of the President, on April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, fulfilled his wish by providing and dedicating this modest memorial.
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