Presidents' Day: The park
Happy Presidents' Day!
Burial site of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York.
The grey stone building in the background in the FDR Presidential Library, the first publicly-owned presidential library in U.S. history. Roosevelt won enactment of a law providing for U.S. funding for and ownership of all presidential papers beginning with his administration.
Previously, presidents retained ownership of their papers. Since presidents did not receive a pension, most presidents made money by editing and publishing their papers and then selling them to libraries.
That changed, too, with FDR. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, all presidents receive a pension upon leaving office.
Burial site of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, New York.
The grey stone building in the background in the FDR Presidential Library, the first publicly-owned presidential library in U.S. history. Roosevelt won enactment of a law providing for U.S. funding for and ownership of all presidential papers beginning with his administration.
Previously, presidents retained ownership of their papers. Since presidents did not receive a pension, most presidents made money by editing and publishing their papers and then selling them to libraries.
That changed, too, with FDR. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, all presidents receive a pension upon leaving office.
