ABSTRACT
The moving finger writes—but at its own pace. Over fifty years after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the greatest president of our century—perhaps of the people history—he has a fitting memorial in the national capitol. There was a massive outpouring of praise and sentiment when the memorial was officially opened on May 2, 1997. The monument itself breaks new ground. It is not a marble object, like the Washington Monument or the Lincoln Memorial, but a series of settings, all involving water. Intellectuals, academics, and media joined Roosevelt and his daring programs in overwhelming numbers. Roosevelt’s policies remain controversial today—as do those of the other great presidents who are his neighbors in the Tidal Basin. The electronic arts are largely the product of the people century—radio, motion pictures, video, television, computers, high-speed printing.
