And why Franklin Delano Roosevelt is on their map I don't even want to hazard a guess.

In March 1933, shortly after ascending to the presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat down to lunch in the Oval Office.

I have the honour to transmit herewith the proceedings of the presentation to Canada of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award at the United Nations on Monday, 2 March 1998.

The first since this man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who began his own unprecedented journey way back at his own first election, way back in a simpler time, way back in 1932 the year Alberto Giacometti made The Palace at Four in the Morning.

The ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt haunts Barack Obama s United States. Historical arguments over whether FDR s New Deal worked now form an important part of American debates over current monetary and fiscal policy in general, and the US Federal Reserve s policy of quantitative easing in particular.

(f) Letter dated 14 April 1998 from the Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General, transmitting the proceedings of the presentation to Canada of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award, held at United Nations Headquarters on 2 March 1998 (A 53 97)

NEW HAVEN In his First Inaugural Address, during the depths of the Great Depression, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously told Americans that, The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Invoking the Book of Exodus, he went on to say that, We are stricken by no plague of locusts.

One of the great transformational leaders in history, Otto von Bismarck, became largely incremental and status quo oriented after achieving the unification of Germany under Prussian direction. Likewise, Franklin Delano Roosevelt s foreign policy objectives and style were modest and incremental in his first presidential term, but became transformational in 1938 when he decided that Adolf Hitler represented an existential threat.

As the recipient last year of the first Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, my Government has been pursuing vigorously the goal of full participation and equality for the more than 1 million disabled persons in Korea. In that spirit, a five year welfare development plan for disabled persons was recently put in place.

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the World Committee on Disability selected Canada as the recipient of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Disability Award for 1997, in recognition of quot Canada apos s historic and continuing commitment to give meaning to the United Nations World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, which the General Assembly adopted in 1982 quot .