It was January 1943, the first time a sitting American president rode on an airplane, a trip shrouded in secrecy so that FDR could strategize with Winston Churchill, a journey fraught with danger.
As FDR once said: “There is nothing so American as our national parks… the fundamental idea behind the parks… is that the country belongs to the people.”
Biden often talks about FDR's policies for rebuilding America, and Johnson wrote a book about Churchill. And today, they agreed on the broad principles.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, HISTORIAN: It was during World War II that FDR unleashed our scientists and medical experts to produce penicillin for the first time.
For now, we'll leave off with FDR pulling the plug on the intervention in 1934, just as Duvalier is graduating from the university of Haiti, school of medicine.
So FDR's art agenda was to give Americans hopeful images of themselves in order to control the narrative of despair that surrounded the economic downturn.