FDR Foundation

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[Harvard Library @HarvardLibrary]

Happy birthday, #FDR! Not only did Franklin Delano Roosevelt attend @Harvard, he was president of @thecrimson and class committee chairman. Here's the future president in 1903, his senior year at the College.

📷 : @FDR_Global

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

On this #PearlHarborRemembranceDay, live through each moment of the day with these documents from the @FDRLibrary
https://t.co/GN9ySoLpKg

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

Can’t think of anything better than this FDR quote to describe Lt Col Vindman today: “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

China Is Fueling Centrifugal Forces At Its Peril by Foundation friend Dr. Alexander Görlach
https://t.co/4k7Z0Bzlzp

[Leslie Griffin @LeslieinBoston]

Great visit w/ @WillardJed of the @FDR_Global Center for Engagement, which pursues solutions to global challenges, including thru consultative work with govts. Center is housed in FDR’s former undergrad suite at Harvard’s Adams House, seen here. Note fireside chat possibilities.

[The Week @TheWeek]

.@Jee_vuh takes a look at what we lose when we lose political cartoons: https://t.co/4UEEUT1g3b

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

On American college campuses, history has been declining in popularity more rapidly than any other major. https://t.co/AT1M4ONoUX

[CNN International @cnni]

War on fake news: Russia's neighbor has developed a blueprint for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world? https://t.co/7lxY4EqRhk

[Jed Willard @WillardJed]

Really proud of this piece by my colleague Cynthia Koch @FDR_Global "We may, in fact, be witnessing the end of liberal democracy instead of the end of history. And closing our minds to the objective past can only hasten the process." https://t.co/13IvHjdOiT

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

China Trends Conference in Adams House

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

Pictures from school strikes all around the world.
#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #ClimateStrike

https://t.co/ZK43ZmUUpD

[Jed Willard @WillardJed]

1/2 Historian Eric Hobsbawm describing 1900-era ethno-nationalists: “hysterically nationalist and xenophobic, idealising war and violence, intolerant and given to strong-arm coercion,

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

A remarkable and important comment on "telling our story" as a "nation" https://t.co/H64oLQODDA

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

WTAF

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

In the beautiful Midwest, windchill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days, expected to get even colder. People can’t last outside even for minutes. What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!

[Hella Fella 🇳🇴🇺🇦 🔱 @paulgrostad]

@WillardJed of @FDR_Global presents "Nordic-Baltic Influence Defenses: an American View"

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

This past week, the Foundation was able to take a group of @Harvard students that couldn't go home for the winter break on a trip to New Bedford to learn about whaling, see Frederick Douglass' home, and meet other students from different Houses and dorms!

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

#OnThisDay in 1943, #FDR signed the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in an attempt to counter Japanese war propaganda and to solidify Sino-American relations.

FDR would write that the measure was "important in the cause of winning the war and of establishing a secure peace."

[Will Stevens @WBStevens]

Huge thanks to @WillardJed and @FDR_Global for hosting me yesterday. What a tremendous honor to discuss diplomacy in the FDR suite @Harvard. A completely mind-blowing experience to sit in FDR’s chair and give a fireside chat. Wow!!

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

Japan?

[Conrad Hackett @conradhackett]

NEW: Want fewer immigrants in the future
Greece 82%
Israel 73%
Hungary 72%
Italy 71%
Russia 67%
S Africa 65%
Germany 58%
Indonesia 54%
Sweden 52%
Nigeria 50%
Poland 49%
India 45%
France 41%
UK 37%
Spain 30%
US 29%
Canada 27%
Japan 13%
https://t.co/jbcyIOcVYu

[FDR Foundation @FDR_Global]

#OnThisDay in 1941, Imperial Japan attacked the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. #FDR would describe it as a day that would live in infamy in his call for a declaration of war.

View from a Japanese plane during the attack (U.S. Navy photograph NH 50930)
#PearlHarborRemembranceDay