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Franklin D. Roosevelt Book Signed

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Book Signed
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One-of-a-kind book twice-signed by FDR as President, who gave it as a December 1941 White House Christmas gift, just a few weeks after Pearl Harbor. Signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper, ''With a Happy Christmas from Franklin D. Roosevelt''. Entitled ''Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt / President of the United States / from January 19, 1940 to January 20, 1941,'' book is one of just 75 copies printed, numbered ''45'' by Roosevelt and signed, ''F.D.R.'' on limitation page. Ten of President Roosevelt's addresses are included, beginning with his 19 July 1940 speech announcing his decision not to run for reelection, in part, ''when the conflict broke out last September, it was still my intention to announce...that under no conditions would I accept reelection.'' FDR changed his mind, after asking himself ''whether I have the right, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, to call on men and women to serve their country or to train themselves to serve and, at the same time, decline to serve my country in my own personal capacity, if I am called upon to do so by the people of my country.'' His September 11th speech at Constitution Hall reads in part, ''I hate war, now more than ever. I have one supreme determination to do all that I can to keep war away from these shores for all time.'' His speeches at Boston Garden on 30 October 1940, the Brooklyn Academy of Music on 1 November 1940, Cleveland's Public Auditorium on 2 November 1940 and Hyde Park on Election eve, 4 November 1940, precede his third Inaugural Address on 20 January 1941, the last speech in the book. Half vellum over marble-patterned boards, measures 7'' x 10'' and is in near fine condition. A rare collection personalized by this nation's longest serving President.