“Aboard the President’s train, the Ferdinand Magellan Approaching Warm Springs, Georgia B eside the train tracks citizens stand waving hankies and flags and pink palms. A warm Good Friday afternoon puts them in shirtsleeves. These are farmers and small-town folk, the best believers in democracy, the givers of sons and daughters to the war, the poor and honest for whom Roosevelt has crusaded in all his four terms. He is so tired, he must be careful not to let his forehead rest against t...he windowpane watching them flow past. Behind the people, fields of alfalfa and corn are still mostly crested dirt, little green tufts show where America’s wealth will grow under this sun. Peach trees blossom. Evergreens and oaks freshen their color. Nature keeps most of her promises. Roosevelt likes that thought. He wants to be done. He wants to shake the constraints of office after thirteen years and keep some promises to himself, see how he could bloom as a natural man outside the presidency.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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