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...enduring magic of Franklin Roosevelt was so strong that one day in the White House Lyndon Johnson stopped by an F.D.R. bust and cradled the bronze chin in his big palm. "Look at that strength," he said to his companion. Then he stroked the Roosevelt face in tribute, his mind reaching back to when he was a young Texas Congressman, watching in awe as F.D.R. steadied the nation in depression and commanded it in war. After nearly 50 years of trying, the U.S. at last seems ready to complete a major Roosevelt memorial in Washington. Or maybe...
...Wednesday afternoon, if current plans hold, the little known Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission will gather yet again on Capitol Hill and, in nervous reverence, study secret photos of a 1-ft. by 3-ft. model for a bas-relief sculpture. The finished artwork, by California sculptor Robert Graham, would be three times that size and grace the entrance to the memorial. It is a work showing a triumphant Roosevelt riding in an open car down Pennsylvania Avenue after his 1933 Inauguration...
Senate majority leader Bob Dole, disabled from war wounds to his right shoulder and arm, has protested. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II) says putting F.D.R. in a wheelchair "would be one of the most powerful parts of the memorial...
...against their view: that F.D.R.'s deception of the 1930s-politically incorrect now but necessary, he believed, for the politics of the time-should be perpetuated in a monument intended for the ages. "We all need to understand what it was this man conquered,'' says Goodwin. "If Franklin Roosevelt were to come back, I think he would want his disability to be shown in some way." He would be amused by the debate. After all, he once said, "There is nothing I love as much as a good fight...
DIED. MELVIN FRANKLIN, 52, singer; from a series of seizures; in Los Angeles. Franklin's impossibly deep, stirringly smooth bass line anchored the Temptations-Motown's premiere male ensemble-through a string of Top 10 hits beginning with The Way You Do the Things You Do in 1964. Only one of the original quintet, Otis Williams, remains alive...