THE ROOSEVELTS

AN INTIMATE HISTORY

A STRONG AND ACTIVE FAITH

THURSDAY, APRIL 30 @ 11:00PM

By April of 1944, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt have occupied the White House for more than eleven years. The President is secretly convalescing in South Carolina from a recently diagnosed bout of congestive heart failure while the war rages overseas and his family is under press scrutiny at home. Despite his failing health, FDR has ambitious postwar plans for his country: to see the horrific struggle through to victory, and then to bring the United States into a new international organization strong enough to insure that the world will not go to war again – the United Nations.

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