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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A Prayer on D-Day June 6th, 1944 My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. 1/17 #D-DayPrayer #FDR

American troops head toward Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944. NpX 72-98

Source: FDRLibrary.org

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I’d like to take this moment refer to Executive Order 8802. 🍸

An excerpt from Executive Order 8802, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on June 25, 1941.

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, and as a prerequisite to the successful conduct of our national defense production effort, I do hereby reaffirm the policy of the United States that there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin, and I do hereby declare that it is the duty of employers and of labor organizations, in furtherance of said policy and of this order, to provide for the full and equitable participation of all workers in defense industries, without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin;

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Is there a war on? Because last time the government encouraged people to grow food in their backyard there was a war on. I know, I was there… both times. 🍸

US wartimes poster (unclear if it’s WW1 or WW2) published by the US Department of Agriculture encouraging Americans to “Do Your Share” by planting gardens and raising chickens in their backyard.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"The 1st is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The 2nd is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world. The 3rd is freedom from want... everywhere in the world. The 4th is freedom from fear..." This👇is not what we fought and died for.🍸

A CNN headline: Trump and Zelensky meeting devolves into shouting match

Subhead: The US president tells Ukraine's leader 'make a deal or we're out' during an angry exchange at the White House

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My God, man. What, exactly, was the pathway to victory for Britain in January 1942? For France? You fight for freedoms… everywhere you can. This man’s cowardice and moral deficiency should disqualify him from public office. 🍸

JD Vance @JDVance (XTwitter)

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

One would hope that this is still true. 🍸 From my State of the Union Address, January 4, 1939 —

Dictatorship, however, involves costs which the American people will never pay: The cost of our spiritual values. The cost of the blessed right of being able to say what we please. The cost of freedom of religion. The cost of seeing our capital confiscated. The cost of being cast into a concentration camp. The cost of being afraid to walk down the street with the wrong neighbor. The cost of having our children brought up, not as free and dignified human beings, but as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Welcome across the veil Jimmy... you lived a long life well, in service to you country and fellow man. 1924-2024🫡 🍸

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I like to think that this is so because Christmas is a holy day. May all it stands for live and grow throughout the years. 13/13

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

December 24, 1942 This year I am speaking on Christmas Eve not to this gathering at the White House only but to all of the citizens of our Nation, to the men and women serving in our American Armed Forces and also to those who wear the uniforms of the other United Nations. 1/13

FDR making his Christmas Eve address in 1942

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Address to Congress 12/8/1941 Mr. Vice President, & Mr Speaker, & Members of the Senate & House of Representatives: YESTERDAY, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval & air forces of the Empire of Japan. 1/13

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress on December 8, 1941. Behind him are Vice President Henry Wallace (left) and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. To the right, in uniform in front of Rayburn, is Roosevelt's son James, who escorted his father to the Capitol.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

All US cities should immediately be painted with Great War style Dazzle camouflage to conceal their direction and heading. 🍸

The USS West Mahomet, a U Nvay cargo ship, in port, circa November 1918. Note how her Dazzle camouflage (large blocks of offset black and white rectangular shapes) greatly distorts the apparent aspect of her bow. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

…and I request that both Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1942, and New Year's Day, January 1, 1943, be observed in prayer, publicly and privately. 🙏🧵13/13

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A Thanksgiving Day Proclamation [originally issued on 11/26/1942] "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord." Across the uncertain ways of space and time our hearts echo those words… 🙏🧵1/13

World War 2 GIs prepare a turkey dinner.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

82 years ago Casablanca opened in NY only days after US armed forces landed at Casablanca in French Morocco, and just 8 weeks before I met Winston for the first of our war conferences in, that’s right, Casablanca. I extend my thanks to our valiant troops and to all who fight against the fascists 🫡🍸

Original French release poster for the 1942 film, Casablanca. Said by some to be the greatest American film ever made… it’s true.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

November 11, 1942 Armistice Day Address In Arlington we are in the presence of the honored dead. We are accountable to them - and accountable to the generations yet unborn for whom they gave their lives. [1/15]

Photograph. President Franklin Roosevelt greets a GI. Official caption on front: "MM-HAR-43-5233." Official caption on reverse: "Sig Corps Photoradioed 12-10-43 / Sig Corps Photo-12-10-43-President in Sicily: President Roosevelt pins the Distinguished Service Cross on the tunic of Lt. Col. J. B. Crawford in a ceremony at Castelvetrano, Sicily, where the President stopped following his historic conferences." Castelvetrano, Sicily, Italy. 10 December 1943 -- My thanks to ww2online.org

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

As I said once before, "We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain." [🍸5/5]

A WW2 era poster with a picture of me, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in front of an American flag with a quote, from me, that reads, "Lost ground can always be regained - Lost time never!" -- Caption: DON'T [GIVE] SLOW UP THE SHIP! Avoid time off! Avoid time out!

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Fortunately, I discovered that the good folks here @bsky.app are handing out free accounts to dead presidents. So I intend to rejoin the fray and lend my skeletal fingers to the cause. I hope, my fellow dead presidents will join me. [🍸4/5]

A selection of dead presidents on Twitter... from the other times. Chester Alan Arthur, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft... were among those of us who showed up over there. Some of them are better dead presidents than they were living presidents... but don't tell them I said so.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Now I see that America has actually re-elected that dunderheaded gentleman of four outs; and I'm literally rolling over in my grave. Seriously. go take a look. Dig me up. I'm spinning like a top. [🍸3/5]

A spinning top... like the kind I used to have when I was a boy.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Well, I saw what he said, and what he did, and I could not abide. So I logged into the Twitter and began to post my actual Fireside Chats... 140 (and later 280) characters at a time. [🍸2/5]

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt @firesidechat32.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Back in '17 I was roused from my slumber when some poltroon suggested that the person about to occupy the White House was using Twitter like "FDR used his Fireside Chats." [chat continues below...]

A picture of me, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, addressing the nation through a less partitioned media. In front of me are microphones from NBC, CBS, and MBS

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