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## HEADING: FDR

733. FDR
A SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF ABC NEWS
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ABC NEWS SPECIAL 7 PM ET
1/29/82
Special: The centennial of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) is commemorated in a retrospective that recalls the 32nd President's life and unprecedented four terms in office.
The hard times of 1932 required, Roosevelt said, "bold, persistent experimentation." And FDR's New Deal certainly experimented—initiating sweeping economic-recovery and reform legislation, and Government relief programs whose costs remain a source of controversy today. Those Depression-era measures are examined through newsreel clips, radio tapes and interviews with an impressive array of experts, including four U.S. Presidents: Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon.
Other subjects for analysis include what anchorman David Brinkley calls FDR's "genius for inspiration and manipulation"; his leadership prior to and during World War II; and his meeting with Churchill and Stalin at the 1945 Yalta Conference. Here, says President Reagan, Roosevelt misjudged Stalin—resulting in an agreement that "in effect, literally turned over Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union."
ABC correspondents include Robert Trout; Richard Threlkeld (domestic segments); James Wooten (on FDR's leadership); and Peter Jennings (foreign policy). (3 hrs.)
Dec. 8, 1941: FDR signs the Declaration of War against Japan

NBC: NOTHING TO FEAR- THE LEGACY OF FDR. 1/29/82
ELEANOR: FIRST LADY OF THE WORLD. (1982)
SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO. (1960)
w/Ralph Bellamy & Greer Garson.
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734. HARRY HOPKINS: AT FDR'S SIDE:
One of the 20th century's most powerful and successful White House aides, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946) rose from a $10-a-week social worker to serve President Franklin D. Roosevelt as friend, advisor and New Deal administrator. Hopkins "had a profound effect on virtually every major crisis," narrator Walter Cronkite says, "from the economic collapse of the industrialized nations to the dawn of the Atomic Age."
Blending archival footage and interviews, the documentary chronicles how Hopkins arrived in Washington, D.C., during the Depression to serve as director of the Works Progress Administration, prepared to say and do what I damn well please. With FDR's blessing, he did. A tireless worker, he helped put some 18 million people back to work and helped establish programs in education, housing and medical care that still survive. And when World War II came, FDR gave Hopkins a crash course in foreign affairs, assigned him to mobilize Allied defense efforts and made him White House emissary to Churchill and Stalin.
Remarkably, Hopkins achieved many of his successes while battling stomach cancer and intestinal disorders that on several occasions left him near death. FDR died on April 12, 1945. Nine months later, Hopkins died. A friend wrote: "I believe that now he had nothing to live for and that his life ended with Roosevelt's." (90 min.)
10/11/89

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: The First Lady of the World.
ROOSEVELT: Power Behind the Smile. (1977)
ELEANOR & FRANKLIN: w/Edward Herrmann & Jane Alexander.
(Mini-Series) Part 1. Concl. next tape.

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734B. ELEANOR & FRANKLIN. (1977)
(Concl. of Part 1.)
ELEANOR & FRANKLIN: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS. (1977)
(Part 2.) w/Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann.
FDR: AN AMERICAN HERO.4/23/85
GREAT DEPRESSION: The New Deal. FDR 1933-41. 6/16/85
MOVIE TONE NEWS: 1/18/97

734C. THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE:
The 7th season opens with a two-part Bio. of "FDR A POLITICAL WIZARD" The Nation's only four-term President. 10/11/94
Pt. 2. 10/12/94
FDR: THE WAR YEARS.2/23/95
(A&E) BIOGRAPHY: FDR: YEARS OF CRISIS.2/23/95

734D. FDR THE CENTER OF THE WORLD. (American Experience) Pt. 1. (1994)
FDR: NEW DEAL. (A.E.)Pt.2. (1994)
THE GRANDEST JOB IN THE WORLD. DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, (1995)
THE HOMES OF FDR: Campobello, Hyde Park & The Little White House. 3/6/99