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President Roosevelt Delivers His First Inaugural Address
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Date of Work
- March 4, 1933
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
President Roosevelt Delivers His First Inaugural Address
This black and white photograph is of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his First Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C. on March 4, 1933. The passage of the 20th Amendment later in the year meant Roosevelt was the last president to be inaugurated in March and the first to be inaugurated in January when he was re-elected in 1936.
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