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A Retreat for Roosevelt in Georgia Burns Down
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| Last Edited | nystate63 Aug 13, 2011 03:00pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Robbie Brown |
| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Thursday, August 11, 2011 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WARM SPRINGS, Ga. — It was the home where Franklin D. Roosevelt, ravaged by polio, learned to walk with a cane and leg braces.
It was where he was persuaded by Democratic leaders to run for president in 1932. And it is where, whenever his health deteriorated, the future president would wade into the calm streams nearby or read books on the front porch.
But on Tuesday, the McCarthy Cottage — a wooden, six-room getaway that Roosevelt had built on a sprawling West Georgia property in 1927 and visited dozens of times during his New York governorship — burned to the ground. |
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