The Roosevelt Family Motto accompanying the Coat of Arms is "Qui plantavit curabit" which can be translated as "The one who planted it will take care of it" or "He who will plant will cultivate. The Library's mission is to foster research and education on the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and their continuing impact on contemporary life. Roosevelt Family Facts. FDR Library. The Most and Least Religious Countries.
FEN Learning is part of Sandbox Networks, a digital learning company that operates education services and products for the 21st century. George W. Bush the 43rd president is the son of George Bush the 41st president. John Quincy Adams the 6th president was the son of John Adams the 2nd president.
Benjamin Harrison the 23rd president was the grandson of William Henry Harrison the 9th president. James Madison the 4th president and Zachary Taylor the 12th president were second cousins. Roosevelt and Dewey also shared another bond; both had served as governors of New York, with Dewey elected 10 years after Roosevelt had left the office to assume the presidency.
FDR was an avid stamp collector. Wherever he travelled, his stash of albums went with him in a special trunk. While Roosevelt himself admitted that his collection was large but not necessarily selective or valuable, he did have several unique pieces created expressly for him by foreign heads of state. Roosevelt was so enthusiastic about his philatelic pursuit that he met regularly with Postmaster General James A. Farley to go over plans for upcoming releases, even sketching a few designs himself.
While president, Roosevelt spent much of his downtime working on his collection, a welcome respite from the difficult burdens of leading the nation through both the Great Depression and World War II. It turns out it made for good PR, too. Roosevelt would no doubt be thrilled that more than 80 countries have released stamps bearing his image. Eleanor Roosevelt held the first press conference by a first lady.
In fact, between and she held of them. Female reporters, who were by tradition excluded from press conferences held by her husband, found a welcome audience with the first lady—only women were invited to attend.
If a news organization wanted to cover Eleanor, who was now increasingly creating her own headlines, they had to keep women on their payroll, no small comfort in the midst of the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt narrowly avoided disaster on his way to the Tehran Conferences.
Porter might be the unluckiest ship in U. Commissioned in , its first assignment was as escort for several other vessels, including the battleship USS Iowa, when they crossed the Atlantic that November. Who was on board the Iowa? The next day saw another accident. While performing a routine drill during which disarmed weapons were to be used , a fully operational depth charge fell off the ship and detonated, sending the rest of the convoy into a near panic, sure that Axis submarines were nearby.
The Porter was once again performing drills, this time using what were supposed to be fake torpedoes. However, the whole convoy was under strict orders to maintain radio silence, so the Porter instead sent light signals to try to warn the Iowa.
While many on-board the Iowa were terrified at the prospect of an attack, FDR took it all in stride, ordering his Secret Service agents to wheel him ship-side, so he could watch the events unfold.
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