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FDR's "Surprise" Birthday Celebration
The entire plan for observing the President’s birthday with its attendant benefits to the Warm Springs Foundation was conceived as a surprise for the President. Quite obviously it has not been kept a secret, nevertheless, neither the President nor the White House has any connection whatever with it....
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Title: FDR's "Surprise" Birthday Celebration
Creator: Stephen Early (author)
Date: January 23, 1934
Format: Correspondence
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Control no.: President's Personal File 310B
Keywords: Advocacy; Birthday Balls; Charity; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Fundraising; Georgia; Government; Health & Medicine; Media; Physical Disability; Polio; Politics; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute