CSPAN QA With Paul Sparrow June 12, 2017
When he first started construction in 1938, he assumed he would leave office at the end of 1940, at the end of his second term as every president before him had. But because of the rising tensions in europe, the Democratic Party nominated him for a third term, and he was elected. So, when this library opened in june of 1941, he was still president of the United States, so this became the northern oval office. He was up here on many occasions. He entertained political leaders like Winston Churchill and one from china and he did a lot of his meetings here and did Radio Broadcasts from here. Fire...