40d - discuss President Roosevelt's ties to Georgia including his visits to Warm Springs and his impact on the state
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND GEORGIA
President Roosevelt's main tie with Georgia was his Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1921, Roosevelt was diagnosed with Polio, at the age of 39. It was said that the soothing warm waters of the springs could heal polio. He decided to try it out and so every summer he would go there. His visits became so frequent that he asked to build a small house to live in there. This house became known as the "Little White House." It was in this area that he founded the Rural electrification act in the New Deal Program. This act loaned over $300 million to farmers' cooperatives to help them extend their own power lines and buy power whole-sale. It was at this same spring that Roosevelt spent the last day of his life at. He was sitting for a portrait on April 24, but suddenly had a terrible headache, and at 5:48, a stunned nation learned of the death of the man who led the country to recovery from the depression. On his way to Washington D.C, millions of people, including in Georgia, crowded around the railroad track to pay their respects and to say one last goodbye to there dear leader.
Textbook (GAE)
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/roosevelts_little_white_house.html
President Roosevelt's main tie with Georgia was his Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. In 1921, Roosevelt was diagnosed with Polio, at the age of 39. It was said that the soothing warm waters of the springs could heal polio. He decided to try it out and so every summer he would go there. His visits became so frequent that he asked to build a small house to live in there. This house became known as the "Little White House." It was in this area that he founded the Rural electrification act in the New Deal Program. This act loaned over $300 million to farmers' cooperatives to help them extend their own power lines and buy power whole-sale. It was at this same spring that Roosevelt spent the last day of his life at. He was sitting for a portrait on April 24, but suddenly had a terrible headache, and at 5:48, a stunned nation learned of the death of the man who led the country to recovery from the depression. On his way to Washington D.C, millions of people, including in Georgia, crowded around the railroad track to pay their respects and to say one last goodbye to there dear leader.
Textbook (GAE)
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/roosevelts_little_white_house.html