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House
Resolution 166
By:
Representatives Epps of the
128th,
Buckner of the
130th,
Nix of the
69th,
and Smyre of the
132nd
A
RESOLUTION
Honoring
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and commending the City of Warm Springs upon
its commemoration of the 125th anniversary of his birth; and for other
purposes.
WHEREAS,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States of
America in March, 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression and was reelected
for an unprecedented three more terms; and
WHEREAS,
FDR, as he was affectionately known, died in office in April, 1945, less than
one month before the surrender of Germany in World War II, at his beloved Warm
Springs, Georgia, Little White House; and
WHEREAS,
despite an attack of polio which paralyzed his legs in 1921 at age 39,
President Roosevelt persisted with strength and courage to lead the American
people during the strains of economic crisis and world war; and
WHEREAS,
President Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1924 to partake of the
town's naturally heated mineral springs to treat his polio related paralysis and
found considerable relief from his illness; and
WHEREAS,
President Roosevelt was enchanted with Warm Springs; he built the only home he
ever owned there, and from that time forward, his modest six-room cottage became
known as the Little White House; and
WHEREAS,
it was from Warm Springs that President Roosevelt is believed to have developed
New Deal politics that affected the entire nation; and
WHEREAS,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of our nation's greatest presidents, and his
legacies continue beyond enumeration, including the continuation of the hospital
he founded for the treatment of polio patents to an internationally recognized
comprehensive medical and vocation rehabilitation facility known as the
Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia;
and
WHEREAS,
January 30, 2007, is the 125th anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's birth,
and it is abundantly fitting and proper for the House of Representatives to
recognize this signal event.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that this body
recognizes the unmatched contributions of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of our
nation's greatest leaders, and commends the City of Warm Springs upon its
outstanding commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's birth.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the mayor of
the City of Warm Springs.