Madison’s monument to four freedoms

Kathy Egan news@greenepublishing.com On Jan. 6, 1941, President Roosevelt spoke to the nation through his State of the Union Address. The speech came eleven months before the U.S. involvement in World War II, when the sentiment of most Americans was to stay out of the war. They were not interested in becoming involved in what they saw as problems “over there.” Roosevelt's speech, which later came to be known as the Four Freedoms Speech, outlined what Roosevelt saw as man's most essential