Featured The Life and Presidency of Harry S. Truman
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
President Franklin Roosevelt in Shenandoah National Park
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- Harpers Ferry, National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection
President Franklin Roosevelt in Shenandoah National Park
President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits a Civilian Conservation Core camp in the Shenandoah National Park. One of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the CCC employed 3 million men during the Great Depression to improve parks nationwide by planting trees, building roads and bridges, and both building new structures and restoring historic ones.
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