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Visiting FDR’s Little White House
America’s 32nd president died here, in a unique presidential home that hasn’t changed since April 1945.
Few presidential homes are as simple or as evocative of their famous residents as Franklin Roosevelt’s Little White House in remote, tiny Warm Springs, Georgia. Built the year of his presidential election, and celebrating its 80th anniversary in May, the modest cottage is where FDR famously died at the height of his glory on April 12, 1945.
Unlike very every other surviving presidential home (and I’ve visited over 30), the Little White House is marvelously trapped in time, essentially preserved exactly as FDR last saw it when he expired from a brain hemorrhage. Even the exact same, aging paper towels still hang in the kitchen, as does the same toilet paper in FDR’s small bathroom.
FDR first came to Warm Springs in 1924, still a young man, but recently crippled by polio. He thought swimming in the constantly warm spring waters of the dilapidated resort might cure his paralysis. Of course, it didn’t, though it did persuade FDR that he felt better. He purchased the property, consuming much of his small, inherited fortune, and transformed the former resort for rich visitors into a hospitality center for child polio victims. Ostensibly, his lengthy visits throughout the 1920s and 1930s reshaped his upstate New York patrician views towards rural America, especially as the Depression arrived.
In a car with hand controls specially provided by Henry Ford, FDR freely drove around the picturesque Georgia countryside across the years. Sometimes his passengers included visiting celebrities such as Ford himself. Ever the politician, often FDR drove up to farmhouses to introduce himself. Delightfully the docent in the house when I visited on a beautiful spring day herself remembered an FDR visit.
“He drove right up into our yard when I was 6 years old,” she recalled. “While talking to my parents, he called us children over. Of course we didn’t know who he was, but he gave us candy, which he was known to do, so of course we remembered him after that.” As a teenager later, she, along with many Warm Springs area residents, often saw him about town and the countryside. But on the day his corpse was escorted to the train station for return to Washington, D.C., she was unable to watch because the high school stubbornly stayed open. “We haven’t had a president like him ever since,” she opined, asking that her views about the current president not be shared.
Visitors enter the house through the tiny kitchen, still stocked with a 1940s toaster and waffle maker. There are glasses used for serving ice water to the Secret Service, and a note scrawled on the wall by the final cook right after FDR’s death. The entrance hallway has scratch marks on the front glass ostensibly from FDR’s famous dog Fala. Each room is paneled with knotty pine, with exposed ceiling beams. The main room, filled with maritime paraphernalia, has a dining set made at Eleanor’s Depression era craft shop at Hyde Park. FDR’s chair where he collapsed sits before the stone fireplace, a card table in front where he had just signed state documents. He was waiting for their wet ink to dry when he announced a terrible headache and fell unconscious.
Controversially, he was hosting his former World War I era mistress, Lucy Mercer Rutherford, now herself a widow. She was accompanied by her friend the Russian portraitist Madame Shoumatoff, who was never able to complete from life her oil portrait of the President. It’s available for viewing in the site’s museum. As FDR lay dying, tended to by his physician, Rutherford and Shoumatoff beat a hasty retreat back to Rutherford’s South Carolina estate. Their presence might upset Eleanor, who naturally had not forgotten her husband’s affair of nearly 30 years before. But FDR’s two doting female cousins were also present on that last day, and one of them would churlishly spill the beans to Eleanor when she arrived to retrieve her husband’s body. The emotional procession of FDR’s corpse through Warm Springs, most memorable for the local musician tearfully playing Dvorak’s “Going Home” on his accordion, became the start of a national pageant similar to Lincoln’s funeral cortege.
The twin bed where FDR died is in a small bedroom right off the main room. Visitors brush by FDR’s desk. The only portrait in the room shows his long-time aide and speechwriter Sam Rosenman. A small bathroom separates FDR’s room from Eleanor’s bedroom, often used by other family members. A third bedroom on the other side of the cottage was for FDR’s secretary, originally Missy LeHand, but later Grace Tully, who was also present when he died. Two small guesthouses also sit on the property, one used by dignitaries, the other for servants. A few small guardhouses surround the wooded property. The property entrance has a swiveling bump gate that cars can push through.
There is no spectacular view from the unprepossessing property, just pleasant Georgia woods. The home contrasts dramatically with the more famous retreat at Berchtesgaden of Roosevelt’s chief rival, Adolf Hitler. The German dictator’s bombastic Alpine mansion looked out almost painfully on the stunning but severe German Alps. Such a sweeping vista, patrolled by legions of SS guards, must have only fueled Hitler’s monstrous grandiosity. Terrible crimes affecting millions were plotted at Berchtesgaden, which was bombed into oblivion by Allied aircraft near the war’s end. Hitler of course, filled with resentment, died by his own hand in a dank Berlin bunker as Soviet troops destroyed and overran the German capital.
FDR died peacefully, within earshot of chirping birds, after sharing witticisms with his admiring friends, in a humble but charming cottage in the red clay Georgia countryside. He had led the Allies towards victory over the Axis terror and lived just long enough almost to see the spectacular destruction of his nation’s enemies. FDR’s corpse was dispatched from the small Georgia village with tearful simplicity, the local people conveying what admiring millions around the world also felt.
To visit the Little White House is almost to meet FDR and to step back into days when epic events unfolded as America’s longest serving president slipped into eternity.
About the Author
Mark Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. and author of Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century. You can follow him on Twitter @markdtooley.
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DTOM!| 4.30.12 @ 8:05AM
Any big fans of FDR big TAS fans, too?
Old Soldier| 4.30.12 @ 9:45AM
Not me. Probably our Republic's worst President. He certainly inflicted the most damage.
TURK| 4.30.12 @ 8:52AM
If there are O foes today, FD had at least one in the '30 s and '40s! My mother.
For me he should be remembered for taking Alger Hiss to Yalta, where he handed eastern europe over to uncle Joe.
What FD started, O is doing his damndest to finish.
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 9:56AM
Franklin Delano Roosevelt-- One of- if not THE GREATEST- PRESIDENTS this Nation has ever seen...!
Bob Grant| 4.30.12 @ 10:23AM
And like all good socialist leaders, he managed to prolong - and in some cases cause - national misery only eventually placing it on life support (FDR's programs in toto) and selling it as "progress" or " a more perfect union".
All using other people's money.
If that's great, you can keep it!
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 10:47AM
What "national misery" did FDR actually--"CAUSE"??
Bob Grant| 4.30.12 @ 10:52AM
Doubling down on Herbert Hoovers bad policy, for one!
...very similar to what obama's doing with Bush policy, only he's tripling down!!
The similarities are staggering!!
God help this once-great country.
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 10:59AM
Didn't FDR have to CLEAN UP THE MESS AND WRECKAGE left in the wake of the do- nothing Hoover administration-- exactly in the same manner that President Obama was/is forced to do the same , following the Bush disaster?
Bob Grant| 4.30.12 @ 11:10AM
Smoot-Hawley, profligate spending, and other instances where "conservatives" acting as liberals is far from do nothing my friend.
Old Soldier| 4.30.12 @ 11:19AM
Surely this is sarcasm. FDR "tried everything" to fix the economy. Everything of course except lower spending and taxes, smaller government.
oldfart| 4.30.12 @ 9:18PM
"Everything of course except lower spending and taxes, smaller government."
BINGO
JP| 4.30.12 @ 11:35AM
"Do Nothing" Hoover? History doesn't quite agree with you, there. Hoover began public works programs (Hoover Dam, The Golden Gate Bridge for example); he introduced the first relief programs; he expanded domestic spending to thier highest levels until FDR came around, and he signed one of the orneous protectionist laws in history. Not bad, for a Do Nothing.
Crassus| 4.30.12 @ 3:07PM
FDR was first elected in 1932 on pledges of controlling government spending and balancing the budget. Doesn't sound like he thought he was running against a do nothing Hoover administration.
Suzyqpie| 7.7.12 @ 5:19PM
Yes. And whomever follows Pres 0bama will have hit the mother lode of messes. Pres 0bama has achieved the most stunning of all challenges, he made every bad thing even worse. GDP, unemployment, food stamps, et al.
Occam's Tool| 4.30.12 @ 1:49PM
Extended the Great Depression significantly, Pelleas. Cut the Army severely in the 1930s, as he was a navy supporter, and didn't care about the army particularly---MacArthur vomited after one confrontation with him when he was chief of staff.
We won't go into his contributions to the Holocaust, such as refusing to admit the Ship of the Damned, and his hostility to Jews in general.
It goes on and on, Pelleas.
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 3:42PM
OC:
FDR was not the messiah...and as much as he was a GREAT PRESIDENT , it doesn't make him a PERFECT PERSON-- or even the BEST he might have been
As far as his actions/inactions, vis-a-vis The Shoah, I DO have a lot of issues. tremendous quarrels with him. HOWEVER.. i don't believe he was any more or less anti-semitic then any of the rest of the elected , and State Department
officials of his day-- the first hald of the twentieth century was an incredibly anti-semitic time, among public officials in this Nation. While I THINK that Roosevelt SHOULD have shown much more spin , and leadership, concerning the storm-clouds swirling around the European Jewish community , prior to 1939, his hands were more then slightly tied, by an overwhelming anti-immigration/anti Jewish mood , in the Congress-- and for that matter.. much in-fighting among the various organizations in the Jewish-American community, which were sending out conflicting/mixed messeges on what they wanted to see happen, as well.- even up , and through Kristallnacht, in Germany 1938, leaders in the American Jewish communities were conflicted over making "too many waves", knowing the over-whelming hatred the gentile majority in this country felt towards them.
C Smith| 5.1.12 @ 12:09AM
The Valley of Jehoshaphat
On Judgment Day, the Judge of all the Earth will have a litmus test, The Jew:
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again [turn back (shûb; שׁוּב)] the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead [execute judgment (shâphaṭ; שָׁפַט)]with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. … they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink (Joel 3:1-3, emphasis added).
At the French resort of Evian on the shores of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1938, President Roosevelt initiated a nine-day international conference, supposedly to facilitate Jewish immigration from Germany and Austria.
Very important people were here and all the delegates had a nice time. They took pleasure cruises on the lake. They gambled at night at the casino. They took mineral baths and massages…some of them took the excursions to Chamonix to go summer skiing. Some went riding, some played golf. Meetings. Yes, some attended the meetings. But, of course it is difficult to sit indoors hearing speeches when all the pleasures that Evian offers are waiting right outside (Rene Richier as quoted in Peggy Mann, When the World Passed by on the Other Side, Manchester Guardian Weekly, 7 May 1938).
Here are the recollections of an uninvited delegate, Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel:
… sitting there in that magnificent hall and listening to the delegates of thirty-two countries rise, each in turn, to explain how much they would have liked to take in substantial numbers of refugees and how unfortunate it was that they were not able to do so, was a terrible experience, I don't think that anyone who didn't live through it can understand what I felt at Evian – a mixture of sorrow, rage, frustration and horror (As quoted in, The Evian Conference - Hitler's Green Light for Genocide, Annette Shaw, 2001, Quoted by permission of Stephen D. Smith, Director, Beth Shalom, (Letter 15/3/2000), Perspective, Vol. 1, Issue 1, July 1998, "Nobody Wants Them,” p. 21).
"At the end of the nine-day conference, Hitler had his Green Light" (Annette Shaw, The Evian Conference - Hitler's Green Light for Genocide, 2001):
'Nobody wants them' claimed the German newspaper Völkischer Beobachter after the Evian Conference in July 1938 and Hitler gloated, saying, 'It is a shameful spectacle to see how the whole democratic world is oozing sympathy for the poor tormented Jewish people, but remains hard hearted and obdurate when it comes to helping them.’ (Perspective, Beth Shalom, p. 21).
http://theisraelofgod.blogspot.....aphat.html
Dustoff| 4.30.12 @ 10:27AM
Much like O-dumber, FDR's wife wanted to become a dictator.
Nick| 4.30.12 @ 12:10PM
Umm, the Polio Prince was one of - if not THE WORST - presidents this nation has ever seen, Pelleas.
While Hoover did turn a recession into a depression, it was the Polio Prince who made it GRRRRREAT!!!!
Betina| 4.30.12 @ 1:01PM
Let me guess. You are 89 years old and thought Uncle Joe was wronged. Plus you really really believed Walter Duranty.
Jack in Wi.| 4.30.12 @ 7:46PM
Pellas: Thank you Newt Gingrich. Newt is an immitation historian.The Nations 5 worst presidents were, Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, and GWBush. Obama and Clinton are trying to fight their way in. These 5 are all the neocons favorites. They do love big goverment and big wars.
Dustoff| 4.30.12 @ 10:28AM
excuse me. (FDR's wife wanted him to become a dictator.)
Historian| 4.30.12 @ 10:44AM
When I was growing up FDR was next to God. I recommend Conrad Black's Biography. The times were desparate and FDR gave an appropriate response--FOR THE TIME! It didn't work and we know his limitations, but he was the right man for the time. NOW IS NOT THE TIME>
gearjammer| 4.30.12 @ 11:04AM
2 terms were more than enough. Truman would have been a better war prez. In Campabello there is a lovely original cottage as well.
Petronius| 4.30.12 @ 11:15AM
The only thing pretentious mendacious plutocrats have to do to become deified is exhibit willingness to subsidize the deficiencies of the boobs with money confiscated from productive middle class citizens doing all they can to gain economic independence and social autonomy. And what do they get from the losers? Instead of gratitude they are attacked for trying to "make it", and told to give up and join the slacker mob. FDR's "greatness" is rooted in launching a war against successful Americans in the private sector and the trash are winning it for the ruling class in expectation of plunder and spoils. Worship FDR, LBJ, HHH, and BHO all you want you economically illiterate shitheels. Your Government will spend our wealth on Moochelle's vacations and all you get is emotional satisfaction. And you can't buy anything with that.
Mark30339| 4.30.12 @ 11:33AM
Very well done Mr. Tooley. Our most crippled President was probably our most vigorous one. He had serious and undeniable infirmities, yet he pulled himself together with contagious focus and energy. Those of us with less obvious, more deniable failings have to wonder if maybe he was the one more blessed. Plenty has already been argued about his policies -- but what an amazing fellow American.
DTOM!| 4.30.12 @ 2:14PM
The country would have been significantly better off if he had spent a lot more time being incapacitated!
He moved us farther down the road to financial ruin than any President, save that open Socialist, Barack Obama.
No ands, ifs, or buts about that. None. IF you think there are, your ignorance of economics is showing, as is your ignorance of the Constitution!
JP| 4.30.12 @ 11:43AM
FDR was a populist demagogue. He practiced the same tricks that Hitler and Mussolini practiced (divide and conquer). He went to war with the Fat Cats (public utilities, banks, mortgage giants, etc...). But he was a "man of the people". He did lift millions from being destitute to being just plain poor. And for that, millions of voters (including Reagan) have very fond memories. The average Joe, who was living with his wife in some shanty-town, was lifted from the shanty-town and was able to rent some slumlord's property while doing make-work projects.
It should also be noted that standards of living actually fell from 1940 through 1948 as both private businesses and families had to do without even the most bare necessities in order to win the war. And after the war, the nation fell into a very deep recession. It wasn't until Truman began to dismantle the most orneous New Deal programs and War Control programs did the nation recover. Yes, people had plenty of jobs in the 1940s, but they earned less and could purchase nothing.
Tiddly| 4.30.12 @ 11:50AM
Read "FDR Goes to War: How Expanded Executive Power, Spiraling National Debt, and Restricted Civil Liberties Shaped Wartime America" by Burton W. Jr. Folsom and Anita Folsom. They authors show how the dismantling of our constitutional (begun by Woodrow Wilson) accelerated with FDR and is now being completed by the Marxist Obama.
Bill| 4.30.12 @ 11:56AM
FDR was a living nightmare.
Nick| 4.30.12 @ 12:13PM
"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Billy the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:
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"[Miami] is infested by millions of uneducated Cubans and Haitian whores."
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You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Billy from Florida.
GO AWAY!
james wilson| 4.30.12 @ 12:08PM
I agree that FDR was a better man than Hitler. Good point.
DTOM!| 4.30.12 @ 2:16PM
Right, when we interned US citizens of Japanese extraction, we didn't murder them. What did happen to their personal property?
Thanks FDR.
Crassus| 4.30.12 @ 3:14PM
It's funny that the one government official who opposed interning Japanese Americans was that bane of liberalism, J. Edgar Hoover, while two heroes of the liberals, FDR and Earl Warren, were the ones responsible.
Ron| 4.30.12 @ 12:43PM
Ah, cannot forget FDR's inept attempt to re-write the rules by which the Supreme Court was established and it's members appointed...Why beat when you can usurp them, right Pelleas?
Betina| 4.30.12 @ 12:59PM
Sounds like a charming retreat. Wish he would have died there. A lot sooner.
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 1:06PM
once again the charming harpie BETINA wishes someone she politically disagreed with an early death..
VERY CHARMING, MY DEAR...
(guess you'll have no problems with the party I am planning on YOUR hopefully early demise, eh?)
Occam's Tool| 4.30.12 @ 1:52PM
The "Bush mess" is actually the Democratic Congress in 2006 mess.
FDR was a great man; this I am not denying. But he prolonged the Depression and sent us into war woefully ill-prepared. The solution in 1933 would have been to CUT taxes.
DTOM!| 4.30.12 @ 2:20PM
And not pandered to the Unions, to the Communists, to the Fascists, and not started a global trade war by increasing tariffs, and greatly cut banks' ability to lend, thus shrinking the domestic economy in real terms, and confiscated Americans' gold stocks.
Please, one of you FDR lovers, tell us about one good thing that FDR instituted, please.
Good luck with that!
DTOM!| 4.30.12 @ 2:20PM
Occam, you are correct on the 1933 tax cuts...
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 2:27PM
"tell us about one good thing that FDR instituted, please."
SOCIAL SERCURITY
Nick| 4.30.12 @ 2:56PM
Pelleas,
That would be Socialist Security, and it was the worst thing that the Polio Prince did to this country.
In case you haven't noticed, it is bankrupting this once great nation.
Tell me something, and be truthful now, should Ted Turner, Hugh Hefner, Warren Buffett, and George Soros be receiving Socialist Security checks?
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 3:45PM
EVERY AMERICAN who has paid into the system, SHOULD be entitled to reap the benefits of their contributions
OK?
Nick| 4.30.12 @ 4:10PM
Even the 1%? Aren't they taking money away from the poor, i.e., the 99%?
Oh no! What's a bleeding heart liberal to do?
And, they were not "contributions." They were taxes.
Also, in a free society, no one is "entitled" to the taxpayer's money.
John| 4.30.12 @ 6:58PM
Nick, you're a racist pig liberal bigot.
Pelleas| 4.30.12 @ 11:26PM
Nick
I SAID---EVERY AMERICAN...WHO HAS PAID INTO THE SYSTEM... should reap the benefits..
WHAT WORD DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??
I didn't say i have to LIKE them-- BUT- they deserve the benefits of their hard life's work, as well....
Nick| 5.1.12 @ 12:19AM
So, you are against the poor and a hypocrite, Pelleas.
The uber-rich are taking taxpayer money which could be used for the poor, and you don't care one bit.
What kind of bleeding heart liberal are you?
I guess you think those same people should get MediScare, too, huh?
Old Soldier| 4.30.12 @ 4:19PM
But they won't be able to reap the benefits o their contributions. Those contributions are spent the moment the arrive in DC.
Instead, my children will be paying for FDR's bad ideas.
Petronius| 4.30.12 @ 8:15PM
Sure. That government Ponzi scheme was designed to do exactly what it accomplished, protecting the wastrel plebes from their wasteful spending habits and preventing the savers from accumulating any wealth at all. What's so good about that?
Dave Williams| 4.30.12 @ 2:43PM
Sure, it was good for people when it started....but then, so is every Ponzi scheme. If you want a good laugh, ask ANY 20-something how much s/he expects to receive in social security benefits. Sorry, Pelleas, your "hero" of the 1940's is severely flawed....but not as bad as your current hero, King Zero.
PattyMor| 4.30.12 @ 3:41PM
Oh yes, FDR handed Eastern Europe to Russia on a silver platter. He also handed China to Mao.
He put us on a path to bankruptcy with social security, VHA, FHA and his big government meddling.
He spent, and spent money, but none of the spending ever led the climb out of the great depression. The depression in Europe lasted a much shorter time than ours.
Mr. Roosevelt penned up the Japanese during the war. Why not corral the Italians and the Germans? He also refused to allow the St. Louis loaded with Jewish refugees to land, which after they would be sent to death camps.
He allowed the black men suffering from syphllis, to go untreated, so they could be "studied".
Please tell me, what is great about all this? No, this was a man who demogoged the issues and violated the constitution. His path will lead to the eventually bankruptcy of the government and all the big government programs and the destruction of the U.S. Dollar.
Paul Windels| 4.30.12 @ 6:41PM
The Coolidge homestead in Plymouth, Vermont, is also very like when President Coolidge lived there. It has no running water and I believe no electricity, as was the case back then as well.
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FWB| 5.1.12 @ 1:44PM
Anyone here bother to read _The_Roosevelt_Myth_ by Flynn?
Might check it out B4 claiming any President as g8.
sirbourbon| 5.1.12 @ 11:46PM
FDR once said that "some of my best friends are communists." He made good on helping his true friends- the communists in Russia. He arranged Lend Lease aid for them; he had his aids design a scheme to provoke the Japanese into attacking us just so that he could rush to "Uncle Joe's" defense. Joe Stalin had enslaved and murdered millions of people living in terror but apparently these facts didn't bother FDR who set our boys up to act as bait at Pearl Harbor.
Herbert Hoover wrote that the US should have stayed out of that war. Hoover said that the Nazis and the communists would have killed each other off had we not interfered and gotten into that war.
http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-.....0817912347
Men in uniform place their lives on the line to defend this nation from foreign enemies only to be betrayed by those who die "peacefully in their bed" while birds chirp outside.