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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,224 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:42 PM Tuesday

On this day, January 6, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms."

FDR exhorted Congress to defend “Four Freedoms” today 1941–eighty years to the day before violent marauders and democracy-haters invaded that same House Chamber on January 6, 2021:

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Mon Jan 6, 2025: On this day, January 6, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms."

Fri Jan 6, 2023: On this day, January 6, 1941, Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms."

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Fri Jan 6, 2023: Video:

Four Freedoms Speech

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Two minute clip of Paramount newsreel footage of President Roosevelt's 1941 Annual Message to Congress (Film ID 201-823-3-1) synced with audio from the Roosevelt Library Audio Recordings Collection (http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/arch.... Film copyrighted by Sherman Grinberg Film Library (http://www.shermangrinberg.com/).

Wed Jan 6, 2016: Roosevelt's State of the Union, January 6, 1941

State of the Union, History

State of the Union (Four Freedoms) (January 6, 1941)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's January 6, 1941 State of the Union Address introducing the theme of the Four Freedoms (starting at 32:02)

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Wed Jan 6, 2021, 10:54 AM: January 6, 2021 is the 80th anniversary of FDR's FOUR FREEDOMS Speech

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On this day, January 6, 1941, Franklin Roosevelt exhorted Congress to defend the "Four Freedoms." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday OP

That "coincidence" escaped me and leads me to conclude the J6 anniversary was planned. bucolic_frolic Tuesday #1

It might have been planned for that reason, but I think it was because this was a pivotal point erronis Tuesday #2

I attended a series of lectures at Springwood put on by Cornell on the Four... NNadir Tuesday #3

I will agree with your assessment of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her husband gets the headlines but she was the purpose Deuxcents Tuesday #4

bucolic_frolic

(54,044 posts)

1. That "coincidence" escaped me and leads me to conclude the J6 anniversary was planned.

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Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:50 PM

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erronis

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2. It might have been planned for that reason, but I think it was because this was a pivotal point

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Tue Jan 6, 2026, 12:57 PM

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during the certification of the electoral votes where a single slip/tragedy could affect the outcome.

Seems like we would have been able to figure out the planning that went into this, but perhaps most of it was done in another country.

NNadir

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3. I attended a series of lectures at Springwood put on by Cornell on the Four...

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Tue Jan 6, 2026, 01:15 PM

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...Freedoms speech.

Springwood is the National Historical site that was FDRs home for his entire life. It is a very moving place and includes his Presidential Library as well as displays of FDR's very extensive personal library. (The Orange Pedophile's library, by contrast, probably consists of a copy of Mein Kampf and back issues of Penthouse magazine.)

The talks in the all day event were very interesting. Two ex-Congress persons attended. One was ex-congressman Steve Isreal, who owns a bookstore on Long Island. He gave away free books during the event related to the Four Freedoms.

The "Freedom" that means the most to me is "Freedom from Want," once a defining goal of our party, particularly as defined by the person I regard as the greatest Democrat of the 20th, perhaps any, century, Eleanor Roosevelt.

When I visited her nearby home, separate from Springwood, nearby Valkill, a comparatively modest home, I was so moved that I almost wept.

Deuxcents

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4. I will agree with your assessment of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her husband gets the headlines but she was the purpose