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The FDR Memorial - A Story of a Statue (a conversation with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)

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Louis Saint-Gaudens

Carol M. Highsmith

Ada Bartlett Taft

Francis Davis Millet

Thomas S. Hines

Kristen Schaffer

Mary Anne Hunting

Edward Durell Stone

Robert H. Ferrell

Nancy Beck Young

Francis Howard Williams

Annette B. Dunlap

White House Historical Association

Stewart McLaurin

Neilia Hunter Biden

Jill Jacobs Biden

Feather Schwartz Foster

Jimmie Lou Sparkman Claxton

John R. Bumgarner

Amy S. Greenberg

Nancy Wilson Mann

Elizabeth Marie Singleton

Joseph Jerry Perling

Elizabeth Tyler Coleman

National Portrait Gallery

Charles F. Robertson

Stephen R. McKevitt

George E. Hutchinson

Edward P. Moser

Lonnie J. Hovey

Winslow Marston Watson

Benjamin Ogle Tayloe

Andrew Jackson Stone

Daniel Giraud Elliot

Theodore Strong Van Dyke

Henry Cabot Lodge

George Bird Grinnell

Ford’s Theatre Society

Thomas J. Carrier

Kristin Ann Hass

National Japanese American Memorial Foundation

Elmer Jacob Burkett

Rebecca Boggs Roberts

Christopher A. Thomas

Lincoln Memorial Commission

Katie Lea Clark

James A. Percoco

Patrick A. Snadon

William G. Clotworthy

James Thomas Flexner

William Howard Adams

Michael Richman

Linda Booth Sweeney

Charles E. Brownell

John C. Van Horne

Edward Carter II

Candice Millard

Sharon M. Hannon

Linda Barrett Osborne

William Dawson Johnston

Charles A. Goodrum

Henry Hope Reed

Dorothy W. Bowers

Beverley W. Bond Jr.

Betty Boles Ellison

Pauline Wilcox Burke

Michael O’Brien

David L. Michelmore

Margery M. Heffron

Judith S. Graham

Billy L. Wayson

William G. Hyland Jr.

Cynthia A. Kierner

Harlow Giles Unger

Montpelier Foundation

David B. Mattern

Holly C. Shulman

Richard N. Cote

Jane Hampton Cook

Catherine Allgor

John F. Marszalek

Patty Reinert Mason

Katherine A. S. Sibley

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Sylvia Jukes Morris

Lester J. Cappon

C. James Taylor

Margaret A. Hogan

Joseph J. Ellis

Stephen A. McLeod

Jeanne E. Abrams

Julia M. Downie

Leslie Anderson

George K. Combs

Frederick Knops

William Stabler

Marjorie Merriweather Post

Nancy Rubin Stuart

Wilfried Zeisler

Estella M. Chung

Nan Devincent-Hayes

Joseph D’Agnese

Thomas W. Lewis

Charles Augustus Goodrich

John H. Rhodehamel

Roger Straus III

Adolf K. Placzek

Andrea Palladio

Amy Waters Yarsinske

Steven McLeod Bedford

Frank Shuffelton

Barbara M Linde

Charles River Editors

John Steele Gordon

Jennifer Chambers

Lynn Doney Howlett

Robert J. Kapsch

Edwin Morris Betts

Marguerite Henry

Myrna J. Cherrix

Donna Gustafson

U.S. Capitol Historical Society

Katherine Malone-France

Osborne Phinizy Mackie

James T. de Kay

William B. O’Neal

Manfred Wundram

Douglas L. Wilson

Merrill D. Peterson

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

James H. Hutson

Clinton Rossiter

Terry L. Jordan

David S. Ferriero

Michael P. Winship

Edward J. Larson

Charles R. Kesler

Giuseppe Franzoni

Frederick Law Olmstead

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Thomas Crawford

George Peter Alexander Healy

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl

Charles Bird King

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews

Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton

Charles Bulfinch

Thomas U. Walter

Rembrandt Peale

Charles Willson Peale

Margaret Bayard Smith

Anne-Catherine Fallen

Don Alexander Hawkins

William C. diGiacomantonio

Charles Carroll Carter

William Bogart Bryan

Barbara A. Wolanin

Antoinette J. Lee

Frederick Gutheim

William C. Allen

National Park Service

Kenneth R. Bowling

Matthew Pinsker

Richard F. Grimmett

Ronald Maberry Johnson

Abby Arthur Johnson

Diana L. Bailey

Marie Pinak Carr

Richard Wallace Carr

Thomas Austin Hardy

Pierre Charles L’Enfant

Benjamin Harrison

Martha Jefferson “Patsy” Randolph

Margaret Woodrow Wilson

Mary Scott Harrison McKee

Jane Irwin Harrison

Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston

Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper Tyler

Sarah Angelica Singleton Van Buren

Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor Bliss Dandridge

Rose Elizabeth Cleveland

Mary Arthur McElroy

Martha Johnson Patterson

Sarah Yorke Jackson

Melania Knauss Trump

Marla Ann Maples

Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama

Laura Lane Welch Bush

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton

Barbara Pierce Bush

Nancy Davis Reagan

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter

Elizabeth Anne “Betty” Bloomer Ford

Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan Nixon

Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Johnson

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower

Elizabeth Virginia “Bess” Wallace Truman

Lou Henry Hoover

Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge

Florence Mabel Kling Harding

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

Ellen Louise Axson Wilson

Helen Louise Herron “Nellie” Taft

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

Ida Saxton McKinley

Mary Dimmick Harrison

Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison

Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston

Ellen Lewis “Nell” Herndon Arthur

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes

Julia Boggs Dent Grant

Eliza McCardle Johnson

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln

Jane Means Appleton Pierce

Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore

Abigail Powers Fillmore

Margaret “Peggy” Mackall Smith Taylor

Sarah Childress Polk

Julia Gardiner Tyler

Letitia Christian Tyler

Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison

Hannah Hoes Van Buren

Rachel Donelson Jackson

Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

Dolley Payne Todd Madison

Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Alexandre Falguiere

Dante Alighieri

General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

General Thaddeus Kosciuszko

General Comte Jean de Rochambeau

General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette

Winston Churchill

Martin Luther King, Jr.

General George B. McClellan

General Winfield Scott

John Paul Jones

General George Gordon Meade

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Albert Gallatin

Albert Einstein

Friedrich St. Florian

William M. McVey

Edward Pearce Casey

Henry Merwin Shrady

John Russell Pope

Dr. William Thornton

Master Lei Yixin

Frederick William MacMonnies

Henry Kirke Brown

Charles Henry Niehaus

Walker K. Hancock

John Quincy Adams Ward

William Gordon Beecher

Herbert Haseltine

Jean Antoine Houdon

Horatio Greenough

Lawrence Halprin

Benjamin Henry Latrobe

Carl H. Conrads

Gaetano Trentanove

William Wetmore Story

Jacques Jouvenal

James Earle Fraser

Lavinia Ellen “Vinnie” Ream Hoxie

Daniel Chester French

Stephen Decatur

Benjamin Franklin

Abigail Smith Adams

Alexander Hamilton

Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis

Constantino Brumidi

Silvio A. Bedini

Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr.

Donald J. Trump

George H.W. Bush

Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harry S. Truman

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Calvin Coolidge

Warren G. Harding

William Howard Taft

Theodore Roosevelt

William McKinley

Grover Cleveland

Chester A. Arthur

James A. Garfield

Rutherford B. Hayes

Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln

Franklin Pierce

Millard Fillmore

William Henry Harrison

Martin Van Buren

John Quincy Adams

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

National Gallery of Art – Sculpture Garden

National Gallery of Art – East Building

City of Washington, DC

James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library

Historic Kenmore

George Washington’s Ferry Farm

Sherwood Forest

Berkeley Plantation

Tuckahoe Plantation

Washington Monument (Baltimore)

City of Fairfax

Jones Point Park

Historic Annapolis

Washington Monument State Park

Assateague Island National Seashore

Ocean City Ocean & Boardwalk

Maryland State House

U.S. Naval Academy

Catoctin Mountain Orchard

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve

Cunningham Falls State Park

Top of the World Baltimore

Baltimore Paddle Boats

National Aquarium

Maryland Science Center

Baltimore Inner Harbor

Glen Echo National Park

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Park

Yorktown Battlefield

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum

Westmoreland State Park

Virginia State Capitol Building

Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center

University of Virginia’s Academic Village

Tredegar Iron Works

Torpedo Factory

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Stribling Orchard

Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum

St. John’s Episcopal Church

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Sky Meadows State Park

Shenandoah National Park

Roer’s Zoofari

Old Town Alexandria

Historic Occoquan

Military Aviation Museum

Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

Mason Neck State Park

Manassas National Battlefield Park

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

Jordan Hollow Stables

Jefferson Vineyards

James Monroe’s Highland

James Madison’s Montpelier

Iwo Jima Memorial

Huntley Meadows Park

Hollywood Cemetery

Charlottesville Historic Downtown Mall

Hartland Orchard

Great Falls Park

George Washington’s Mount Vernon

George Washington’s Distillery & Gristmill

George Washington Masonic National Memorial

George Washington Birthplace National Monument

Frying Pan Farm Park

Flying Circus Airshow

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge

Charlottesville

Burke Lake Park

Arlington National Cemetery

World War II Memorial

Woodrow Wilson House

West Potomac Park

Watergate Hotel Top of the Gate Rooftop Bar & Lounge

Washington National Cathedral

Washington Monument

U.S. Navy Memorial Plaza

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. National Arboretum

U.S. Capitol Grounds

U.S. Botanic Garden

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Theodore Roosevelt Island

St. John’s Church Lafayette Square

Smithsonian Pollinator Garden

Smithsonian National Zoo

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

President Lincoln’s Cottage

Old Post Office Tower at Trump International Hotel

New York Avenue Presbyterian Church

National Portrait Gallery

National Gallery of Art – West Building

Washington National Cathedral Gardens and Grounds

National Building Museum

National Archives Museum

Museum of the Bible

Mayflower Hotel

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove

Lincoln Memorial

Library of Congress

Lafayette Square

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II

James Madison Memorial Building and Hall

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

George Mason Memorial

Ford’s Theatre

East Potomac Park

Dumbarton House

Congressional Cemetery

Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle

Arts Club of Washington

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

Columbus Fountain

Frieze of American History

Declaration of Independence

Funeral Cortege (FDR Memorial)

Social Programs (FDR Memorial)

First Inaugural (FDR Memorial)

Fireside Chat (FDR Memorial)

Appalachian Couple (FDR Memorial)

The Breadline (FDR Memorial)

Presidential Seal (FDR Memorial)

Bartholdi Fountain

Dante Alighieri (Meridian Hill)

General Kosciuszko Statue (Lafayette Square)

General Rochambeau Statue (Lafayette Square)

General Marquis de Lafayette Statue (Lafayette Square)

Winston Churchill Statue

Theodore Roosevelt Statue (Roosevelt Island)

Martin Luther King, Jr. Statue (MLK, Jr. Memorial)

General George B. McClellan Statue

John Paul Jones Memorial

John F. Kennedy Bust (Kennedy Center)

Joan of Arc Statue (Meridian Hill)

James Madison Statue (Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building)

James Garfield Memorial

James Buchanan Memorial (Meridian Hill)

George Washington Statue (Washington National Cathedral Olmsted Woods)

George Washington Statue (Washington National Cathedral)

George Washington Statue (Washington Circle)

George Washington Statue (U.S. Capitol)

George Washington Statue (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)

General George Gordon Meade Memorial

Prologue (FDR Memorial)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Fala Statue (FDR Memorial)

Eleanor Roosevelt Statue (FDR Memorial)

Daniel Webster Statue (U.S. Capitol)

Chief Justice John Marshall Statue (U.S. Supreme Court)

Chief Justice John Marshall Statue (John Marshall Park)

Benjamin Franklin Statue (Old Post Office)

Andrew Jackson Statue (Lafayette Square)

Alexander Hamilton Statue (U.S. Treasury)

Albert Gallatin Statue (U.S. Treasury)

Abraham Lincoln Statue (Washington National Cathedral)

Abraham Lincoln Statue (Lincoln’s Cottage)

Abraham Lincoln Statue (Lincoln Memorial)

Abraham Lincoln Statue (Emancipation Memorial)

Abraham Lincoln Statue (DC Court of Appeals)

Apotheosis of Washington

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