A Road Map to Making History
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What lifts a president to greatness? The answers are not as elusive as
you might think. Some lessons from those who have reached the pinnacle.
By Jon Meacham
Newsweek
Jan. 24 issue - The inauguration was a quiet affair. Sixty years ago
this week, on Jan. 20, 1945-a cold Saturday in Washington-Europe
had been at war for nearly six years, America for just over three.
Three months away from death (he privately remarked that he felt like
"boiled owl" much of the time), Franklin Roosevelt decided the fewer
the festivities, the better. There was no parade (the military was
overseas), and so little chicken in the salad at lunch that most guests
could be forgiven for thinking they were eating a celery dish. After
taking the oath on the South Portico of the White House-one of the
last times he ever stood, his steel braces locked in place-FDR
delivered what has become an unjustly obscure fourth Inaugural Address,
one long overshadowed by the majestic 1933 speech in which he told
America that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Jon Meacham
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