1941 State of the Union Address

Arguably the most remembered State of the Union moment is the declaration of the <a href="http://youtu.be/QnrZUHcpoNA">"Four Freedoms</a> in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1941 address - the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear. It became memorialized in Norman Rockwell's famous paintings and offered a standard by which other countries would be judged. <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16092">Read the entire 1941 address here.</a>

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Arguably the most remembered State of the Union moment is the declaration of the "Four Freedoms in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1941 address - the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear. It became memorialized in Norman Rockwell's famous paintings and offered a standard by which other countries would be judged. Read the entire 1941 address here.

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