FDR always had plenty of money. However, late in his childhood he had polio. For the rest of his life he was confined to a wheelchair for the most part. Until he had an iron grip on the White House he managed to hide it from most people. However, this memorial made no secret of the fact. It started with a picture of FDR in a wheelchair and this plaque.





  



 

     

I was surprised to see that "think globally, act locally" idea in this context. It was a nice surprise, my favorite kind.

  

By "these days of difficulty" he was referring to the great depression. My grand-father struggled through those days. My father sort of remembered those days, but this writer wasn't born until much later.





FDR was our only President who was elected four times. In fact, he was the only one that got elected more than twice. George Washington gave up the seat after eight years because he felt that was a much time as anyone should have the seat. That was the precedent that everybody honored until FDR came along. More recently they have added an amendment to the Constitution that makes two terms per President the max.

  



The TVA started out as a project to bring hydro power to the area. It has since evolved into much more than that.



Looks like we have regressed a lot since the country took those words as marching orders. Too bad, but that's what happens when the 1% figure out how to buy the government they want.



  

I don't know those people or anything like that. They are just other tourists that happened to be there. I got tired of waiting for them to get out of the shot. Then I realized they give a good idea of the scale of the place. It's at least a hundred yards long, much bigger than most of the monuments in DC. Wandering through it feels a lot like doing a maze. It's easy to miss something, and I probably did.





Lots of "water flowing like justice", as I like to call the pink noise coming off the water features.









She continued to have an effect on America even after her husband died.