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FDR

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APRIL 12, 1945 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Shortly before 1:00 p.m. on April 12, 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was seated in the living room of the Little White House at his beloved Warm Springs, Georgia therapeutic spa. Three days earlier, Lucy Mercer Rutherford arrived from Aitken, South Carolina, accompanied by portrait artist Elizabeth Schoumatoff. Meanwhile, when the … Read more

Remember Korea

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RESOLVE AND RESTRAINT We remember Korea as an example of American resolve and restraint. Firstly, seventy years ago, in January 1950, U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied that the Korean Peninsula lay outside the defense perimeter of the United States. Then, on Sunday July 25, 1950, at 4:00 a.m. Korean Standard Time, and … Read more

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