The park’s name refers to President Roosevelt’s eighth State of the Union address, delivered Jan. 6, 1941. In it, he laid out his vision for “a world attainable in our own time and generation,†founded upon four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
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