HYDE PARK, NY — The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will commemorate Constitution Day with a film screening of “A More Perfect Union” at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17. The program will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library.
America, 1786. Ten years have passed since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But America’s hopes for a united country are dangerously threatened. England wages a new war of unfair trade and tariffs. Fragmented states continually bicker over currencies, trade and taxation. America is a powder keg ready to explode.
But a handful of brilliant, courageous men—James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin—led a three-year diplomatic battle that culminates in Philadelphia. There they created a new form of government—one that has since become the standard of freedom and democracy for the rest of the world.
The United States Constitution (completed and ratified) launched the United States on its voyage. “For two centuries this unparalleled ship of democracy has sailed forth as an enduring vessel of freedom charting a course for the governments of every free nation in the world,” a library spokesman said.
This is a free public event, but registration is required. Visit www.fdrlibrary.org to register.
Call Cliff Laube at 845/486-7745 with questions about the event.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Designed by Franklin Roosevelt and dedicated on June 30, 1941, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is the nation’s first presidential library and the only one used by a sitting president. Administered by the National Archives and Records Administration since 1941, the Library preserves and makes accessible to the American people the records of FDR’s presidency.
The Roosevelt Library’s mission is to foster a deeper understanding of the lives and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and their continuing impact on contemporary life. For more information about the library or its programs, call 800/337-8474 or visit www.fdrlibrary.org.