Inscriptions in the 4th Term Room
On ground, as you enter the 4th Term Room
Fourth Term 1945
Wall, entrance
More Than as End to Wars, We Want and End to the Beginnings of All War
Beneath United Nations emblem
Eleanor Roosevelt
First United States Delegate
To the United Nations
Left of Eleanor Roosevelt sculpture
The Structure of World Peace Cannot be the Work of One Man, or One Party, or One Nation... It Must be a Peace Which Rests on the Cooperative Effort of the Whole World.
On the arched steps
- January 30, 1882 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Born at Hyde Park New York
- 1905 Marries Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1921 Stricken with Poliomyelitis - He Never Again Walked Unaided
- 1928-1932 Governor of New York
- 1932, Pledges "A New Deal" for the American People
- 1932, Elected Thirty-Second President of the United States
- 1933, Delivers First Fireside Chat
- 1936, Re-Elected to Second Term as President
- 1940, Re-Elected to Third Term as President
- 1941, Delivers Four Freedoms Speech
- 1941, Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor - War Declared
- 1941, Germany and Italy Declare War on the United States
- 1944, Re-Elected to Fourth Term as President
- April 12, 1945 Dies at Warm Springs, Georgia
Wall, exit
The Only Limit to Our Realization of Tomorrow Will be Our Doubts of Today. Let Us Move Forward with Strong and Active Faith.
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear
Artists and Architects of the 4th Term Room
Landscape architect of the 4th Term Room: Lawrence Halprin
Sculptor of the Funeral Procession bas relief: Leonard Baskin
Sculptor of the statue of Eleanor Roosevelt: Neil Estern