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President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at a meeting of the Meriwether County Forestry Fire Prevention Association in Warm Springs, Ga., about re...

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt leaves the

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York is shown with his wife Eleanor, at left, by pillar, and their daughter Anna Eleanor Dall, second from left, and...

New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt shaking hands with admires in Union Station on Oct. 25, 1932 in Washington, D.C., when his special train made a b...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, leaves the railroad station at Warm Springs, Ga., Nov. 24, 1932, as he arrived to spend the Thanksgiving holid...

Opera singer Mary Garden is shown aboard the liner Manhattan on her arrival in New York, Nov. 24, 1932. (AP Photo)

From left to right: Prof. Raymond Moley, economic adviser, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Vice President-elect John N. Garner, are shown...

New York Gov. and President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President-elect John Garner are guests of the National Press Club in Washington, Nov....

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt who visited Washington to confer with President Hubert Hoover regarding the foreign debt situation, was the gue...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president-elect, is shown with Nancy Astor as they attended church services at Hyde Park, N.Y., Nov. 20, 1932...

Franklin D. Roosevelt, photographed for the first time since his illness, is shown greeting an old acquaintance, George Cardinal Mundelein, Roman Cath...

New York Governor and President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt has a happy reunion with his staff in Albany, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1932, following his election...

Viscount Waldorf Astor of England, is shown aboard the liner Europa on his arrival in New York , Nov. 17, 1932. He will rejoin his wife, Viscountess...

Arthur S. Vernay, big game hunter and naturalist, is pictured with his wife Marion aboard the liner Europa on their arrival in New York, Nov. 17, 1932...

Financier J.P. Morgan, center, leaves the liner Europa on arrival in New York, Nov. 17, 1932. Morgan, who spent several months in Europe, declined to...

John D. Rockefeller and his new bride Blanchette Ferry Hooker arrive at the Colony Club in New York, Nov. 11, 1932, following their colorful wedding a...

Accompanied by his immediate family, Pres. Herbert Hoover and his secretary Lawrence Richey leave Palo Alto, Calif., Nov. 11, 1932, on the rear platfo...

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt gladly hands over his campaign hat to Cpl. William Green of the New York State Police, to be put away as a fond...

Concert singer Lotte Lehmann is shown aboard the liner Bremen on her arrival in New York Nov. 10, 1932, where she will make concert appearances. (AP P...

Russian opera star Feodor Chaliapin is shown with his wife Maria Valentinovna Petzhold, and daughter Marina aboard the liner Bremen upon their arrival...

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, is shown at his New York City townhouse as his two closest advisers visit, Nov. 9, 1932. From left to right:...

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown at hims townhouse in New York City surrounded by family members, Nov. 9, 1932, after he won the preside...

Col. Herbert H. Lehman, who defeated Col. William J. Donovan, his Republican opponent for governor of New York by 900,000 votes, is shown at his home...

Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the New York governor and Democratic presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, arrives at Democratic headquarters at th...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate for president, holds some of the telegrams of congratulations he received on his victor...

Laura Delano, cousin of New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wishes her first cousin success in the election, shortly after his arrival at his townhou...

New York's Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, is shown at Town Hall in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Election Day, Nov. 8, 1932, with his wife Eleanor and son...

Workers at the Associated Press office in New York are shown busy at work on Election night, Nov. 8, 1932. (AP Photo)

Workers are shown in the offices of the Associated Press on Election night, Nov. 8, 1932, in New York. (AP Photo)

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is greeted by war veterans during a visit to the U.S. Veterans' Hospital in Beacon, N.Y., Nov. 7, 1932. This is t...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, Democratic nominee for president, says goodbye to his granddaughter Anna Eleanor Dall outside his New York Cit...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt relaxes by the fireside at his Hyde Park, N.Y. home, Nov. 6, 1932, following the end of several arduous months of...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt are shown at the governor's home at Hyde Park, N.Y., Nov. 6, 1932, reading t...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Nov. 5, 1932, as he listened to a speech by former Gov. Alfred...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York speaks at Madison Square Garden in New York, Nov. 5, 1932, winding up his campaign as the Democratic presidenti...

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From left to right: Sen. Royal T. Copeland; former N.Y. Gov. Alfred E. Smith; Lieutenant Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, candidate for governor of New York;...

Lieutenant Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York who is running for governor, speaks at the Democratic rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, N...

Senator Royal T. Copeland, Alfred E. Smith, Lt.-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, candidate for governor of New York state, and Governor Franklin D. Rooseve...

This is s a general view of the capacity audience at New York's Madison Square Garden, Nov. 5, 1932, when Gov. and Democratic presidential candidate F...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks on Nov. 5, 1932 at Mineola, New York. Roosevelt makes a campaign stop on Long Island as the Democratic pr...

Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York addresses the crowd that jammed the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Nov. 4, 1932...

New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and former New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith acknowledge an enthusiastic crowd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the...

Former Gov. Al Smith speaks at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Nov. 4, 1932, in which he attacked Republican polici...

Coach Harry Mehre, right and his senational sophomore halfback, Cy Grant, pose at Yankee Stadium in New York during a brief workout following the arri...

Horace Curry, seen Nov. 3, 1932, will unlock the voting machine in Town Hall, Hyde Park, N.Y., where Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt will cast his ballot o...

This is the Town Hall in Hyde Park, N.Y., seen Nov. 3, 1932, where Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt will cast his vote on Election Day. (AP Photo)

Governor Franklin Roosevelt acknowledging the cheers of the thousands who packed the Metropolitan Opera House on November 3, 1932 in New York City, to...

Nancy Astor of Virginia, a member of the British parliament, with her sister Phyllis Brand on board the S.S. Leviathan, Nov. 3, 1932 in New York. (AP...

Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for president, shown on the speakers' platform in Madison Square Garden, Nov. 3, 1932, New York City, where thousa...