President Franklin D Roosevelt on vacation in Warm Springs, Georgia. President Roosevelt arrives in Warm Springs and get off a railroad car at the station. A large crowd gathers to welcome him. President Roosevelt smiles and speaks to the people. Many men, women and children gather along the roadside to welcome the President. Children waving to President Roosevelt. Some young men in uniforms of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) are in the crowd. Everyone appears jubilant and waves as President's car drives past them.
U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt at a Foundation in Warm Spring, Georgia. The President seated with other members of the Foundation. President Roosevelt speaks over the microphones about the sanitarium's humane achievements and expresses hope for a nation wide Thanksgiving. President Roosevelt and paralysis patients eat turkey.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the dedication of Techwood Homes (Techwood was a slum clearance project to build twenty-three brick and concrete buildings to house 604 families and 308 Georgia Tech students. It also included forty-two concrete buildings with 677 apartments at Atlanta University) at Georgia Tech University. The President is seen delivering his dedication speech, entitled, “The Meaning of Progress," at Grant Field on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia, before an audience of 50,000 people. He remembers the day, eleven years ago, in 1924, when he first came to Warm Springs, Georgia. He speaks about those days of so-called prosperity in America, when speculators profited and there was a "fool’s paradise” before "the crash", and the citizens were left "holding the bag." He reflects on the disaster and gloom from 1929 to March 3,1933, and reminds the audience of his administration’s subsequent actions to re-open closed banks and establish insurance for bank depositors. He speaks of the efforts of Government to find gainful employment for people out of work.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving his grandchildren in his personal Ford Phaeton automobile. They drive into a cornfield near Warm Springs, Georgia, where they observe farmers loading cornstalks into a horse-drawn wagon. The President watches them from the car, as his grandchildren jump out and join the farmers in throwing the corn stalks into the wagon.
United States President Franklin Roosevelt visits Warm Springs, Georgia for his annual stay at Little White House. A crowd gathers at the train car carrying FDR. Close up of children waving to FDR. Crowd along a road as Roosevelt's limousine leaves the railroad area. President Roosevelt waves to the crowd. Children clap for him. A guard next to a sign that reads, 'This is the Little White House. It is Occupied. The public is requested to view it from the hill. Please do not intrude' FDR's car travels on the highway.
Shows the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as Franklin D. Roosevelt's voice is heard in the background. American flag flying at half mast. American flags on other buildings. Women on wheelchairs outside building. People line rail road tracks as the funeral train leaves. British and Soviet flags at half mast.
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