Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum

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One President died during his fourth term in the office of the President of the US. True or False?
The alphabet agencies where established by Sesame Street. True or False?
Giuseppe Zangara was the name of FDR's poodle. True or False?
The term "fireside chats" refers to FDR's radio addresses broadcast to the country. True or False?
Eleanor Roosevelt did not have to change her last name when she married FDR. True or False?
FDR is pictured on the dime. True or False?
The "March of Dimes" actually refers to a request that FDR made for Americans to send their dimes to the White House. True or False?

Want to know more about the President whose initials, FDR, are as well known as the alphabet agencies he created? The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum Web site is packed full of well known and not so well known information about the personal life of FDR as well as details about his Presidential administration. View the documents he kept locked in his oval office safe. Read official war time correspondence and view thousands of Roosevelt era photos.

PROCEDURES

Use your WWW browser to access the site whose URL is:
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
Explore the site. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site location for future use.
Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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