Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at 63 during fourth term as President of the United States
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(Originally published by the Daily News on April 13, 1945. This story was written by Merriman Smith.)
WARM SPRINGS, GA., April 12 — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-first man to serve as President of the United States and the nation’s only four-time Chief Executive, died suddenly here at 4:35 P.M. (New York time) today.
Relaxed and in fine spirits, he had sat in front of the fireplace in his cottage at 2 P.M., posing for a portrait artist.
Suddenly he said, “I have a terrific headache.”
Those were his last words. He lapsed into unconsciousness at 2:15 and two hours and 20 minutes later died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
He was 63, and died as armies he helped to muster drove momentarily closer to final victory over Nazi Germany. He died on the eve of what he had hoped would be the inauguration of an era of peace in a world free from want and fear.
Only three persons were with the President when he died in his quarters at the Warm Spring Foundation for infantile paralysis victims. They were Comdr. Howard G. Bruenn, on the staff of Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Navy Surgeon General, who was Roosevelt’s personal physician; Lieut. Cmdr. George Fox, a White House medical aid, and Dr. James Paullin, Atlanta physician, who had been summoned when the President was stricken.
2 Cousins in His Cottage
Mrs. Roosevelt and his only daughter, Mrs. Anna Boettiger, were in Washington. His four sons are on duty with the armed forces.
In the cottage, called the Little White House, but not his room, were his cousins, Margaret Suckley and Laura Delano. With them was his private secretary, Grace Tulley, and White House Secretary William Hassett.
Death came to him on a pleasant Spring day. The scene was a little room overlooking a green and lovely Georgia valley.
So far from death were the President’s thoughts when he began his last day that he had planned an unusually busy afternoon and evening, even to attending a minstrel show at night.
The President had been in Warm Springs — which he called his second home — since March 30. Most of the preceding week he had spent at his home in Hyde Park.
The news of Roosevelt’s death came from the secretary, Hassett. He called in three press association reporters who had accompanied the President here and said:
“It is my sad duty to inform you that the President died of a cerebral hemorrhage.”
The news was phoned simultaneously to Washington.
After Roosevelt had complained of headache, he put his hand suddenly to the back of his head. A few minutes later he slumped/sl?mpt/ in his chair.
Arthur Prettyman, Roosevelt’s [African-American] valet/'v?le/, picked the President up bodily and carried him to the small bedroom just to the left of the entrance to the Little White House.
Before receiving the portrait artist, the President worked on official papers. He seemed to be in good health. His face, though seamed/simd/, had been tanned/t?nd/ by the Georgia sun.
His last official act was to sign legislation /?l?d??s'le??n/ extending the life of the Commodity /k?'mɑd?ti/ Credit Corp.
As he signed the bill, he remarked to Hassett, “Here’s where I make a law.”
A moment before, he signed several State Department appointments, citations/sa?'te??n/ for the Legion of Merit/'m?r?t/ for U.S. war heroes, and a long list of postmaster nominations/?nɑm?'ne??n/ for small towns — such as Panaca, Nev.
Hassett left the Little White House a few minutes before the President felt the head pains which foretold /f?r?told/ his death.
Roosevelt would have tackled /?t?k?l/ his paper work much earlier in the day had not the plane bringing his official pouch /pa?t?/ from Washington been grounded by weather. Usually, while in Warm Springs, the President went to work much earlier in the day, but today it was noon before he got started.
Hassett had asked the President whether, in view of the nearness of the lunch hour, he would like to delay going over his paper work until afternoon.
The President shook his head and told Hassett they could get to work right then.
Doctors Called In.
“We worked for about 20 minutes on an unusually heavy budget of paper work,” Hasset said, “and then left him some material to read stacked up in front of him.”
After the President fainted/feintid/ and Prettyman carried him to the bedroom, Miss Delano summoned Dr. Bruenn. He and Comdr. Fox, an assistant to McIntyre, took off Roosevelt’s dark blue suit and pulled on his pajamas.
Bruenn saw the President about 9:30 this morning and found him in “excellent spirits.” He did not see Roosevelt again until summoned in the emergency.
The artist who was sketching the President was N. Robbins of 520 W. 139th St., New York. He left the Little White House soon after the President fainted and departed from Warm Springs in his auto before reporters could talk to him.
There had been one portent/'p?rt?nt/, had anyone been able to interpret it, that not everything was well with the President. He had not once gone swimming in his warm water pool, as had been his custom in all previous visits and where in 1924 he began his long battle to overcome the withering /'w?e?r??/ effects of infantile/'?nf?nta?l/ paralysis /p?'r?l?s?s/.
withering /'w?e?r??/
* adj. 使干枯的；使畏縮的戚扳；極有毀滅性的陷舅；極有諷刺性的
* n. 枯萎；凋謝
* v. 使凋謝格侯；干枯；減弱；摧毀（wither的現(xiàn)在分詞）
* infantile/'?nf?nta?l/ paralysis /p?’r?l?s?s/.
* [醫(yī)] 小兒麻痹癥匪蝙；[內(nèi)科] 脊髓灰質(zhì)炎
Dr. Bruenn gave this explanation of the disinclination /?d?s,?nkl?'ne??n/ to swim:
“He just did not want to — he did not feel like it.”
disinclination /?d?s,?nkl?'ne??n/
* n. 不感興趣敛摘；厭惡门烂；不起勁
On April 5, the President conferred /k?n'f?/ for a day with President Sergio Osmena of the Philippine/'filipi:n/ Commonwealth. He told Osmena that he hoped Philippine independence would be restored far in advance of the Congressional /k?n'ɡr???nl/ statutory /'st?t?ri/ date of July 4, 1946.
conferred /k?n'f?/
* vt. 授予；給予
* vi. 協(xié)商
* n. (Confer)人名；(英)康弗
* Congressional /k?n'ɡr???nl/
* adj. 國會的屯远；會議的蔓姚；議會的
* far in advance of
* statutory /'st?t?ri/
* adj. 法定的；法令的慨丐；可依法懲處的
Then He Was Bubbling.
The occasion/?’ke?n/ of his meeting with Osmena on April 5 was the last time the three wire service reporters accompanying the President saw him to talk to for any length of time. He was in gay/ɡe/ spirits then and chatted lightly as he sat behind a paper-laden card table, waving his long cigarette holder jauntily/'d??:ntili/ and wisecracking/'wa?zkr?k/ with the reporters.
jauntily/'d??:ntili/
* adv. 洋洋得意地坡脐；活潑地；快活地
* wisecracking/'wa?zkr?k/
* n. 俏皮話
* vi. 說俏皮話
* vt. 俏皮地說
At the time the President had a good suntan/'s?nt?n/, but his face was usually drawn and there was evidence of a slight cough.
But he did not look or act like a man who was going to die in a week.
After today’s attack Bruenn quickly called Admiral? /'?dm?r?l/ McIntire in Washington and McIntire in turn called Dr. James P. Paulin of Atlanta, an internal medical specialist and honorary /'ɑn?r?ri/ consultant to the surgeon /'s?d??n/ general.
honorary /'ɑn?r?ri/
* adj. 榮譽的房揭；名譽的备闲；道義上的
* n. 名譽學位；獲名譽學位者捅暴；名譽團體
* surgeon /'s?d??n/
* n. 外科醫(yī)生
* n. (Surgeon)人名恬砂；(法)敘爾容
The tiny community that makes up Warm Springs was plunged into gloom /ɡlum/ by the death of its patron /'petr?n/ saint /sent/.
plunged /pl?nd?/
gloom /ɡlum/
* n. 昏暗；陰暗
patron /'petr?n/
* n. 贊助人蓬痒；保護人泻骤；主顧
* saint /sent/
* n. 圣人；圣徒梧奢；道德崇高的人
* adj. 神圣的
* vt. 成為圣徒
* patron saint
* n. 守護神狱掂；保護圣徒
The President had planned at 4:30 o’clock to go to the mountainside cottage of Frank Allcorn, the Major of Warm Springs, for an old fashioned late afternoon barbecue/'bɑrb?kju/.
barbecue/'bɑrb?kju/
* n. 烤肉；吃烤肉的野宴
* vt. 燒烤亲轨；烤肉
As the President died, country fiddlers/'f?dl?/ were on the mountainside by Allcorn’s cottage testing out their violins/'va??'l?n/ and planning what they were going to play for him.
fiddlers/'f?dl?/
* n. 拉提琴的人趋惨；小提琴手；騙子惦蚊；游蕩者
At dusk /d?sk/ the President was to have gone to the small playhouse on the small playhouse on the Warm Springs Foundation for a minstrel /'m?nstr?l/ show put on by the patients who live in wheel chairs and braces — just as the President had since he suffered an infantile paralysis attack in 1920.
minstrel /'m?nstr?l/ show
* n. 歌手器虾，藝人；吟游詩人
Since last Spring it had been increasingly evident/'?v?d?nt/ that the President had lost a great deal of his old-time vitality /va?’t?l?ti/ and ability to recover from minor ailments/'eilm?nt/. He spent a month last Spring fighting a secluded battle with bronchitis /brɑ?'ka?t?s/ at the South Carolina coastal/'kostl/ estate /?'stet/ of Bernard M. Baruch. And in the months leading to his precedent /'pr?s?d?nt/ — breaking fourth term campaign the Chief Executive/?ɡ'z?kj?t?v/ spent as much time as possible at his home in Hyde Park.
evident/‘?v?d?nt/
* adj. 明顯的养筒；明白的
* old-time
* adj. 從前的曾撤；舊式的；資深的
* vitality /va?’t?l?ti/ 活力
* ailments/'eilm?nt/.
* n. 疾病晕粪，小布废ぁ（ailment復(fù)數(shù)形式）
* bronchitis /brɑ?'ka?t?s/
* n. [內(nèi)科] 支氣管炎
* coastal/'kostl/
* adj. 沿海的；海岸的
* estate /?'stet/
* n. 房地產(chǎn)巫湘；財產(chǎn)装悲；身份
Visit in South a Secret.
Because of wartime security silence on his movements the public had little knowledge of just how much time the President was spending outside of Washington. As a matter of fact, his presence /'pr?zns/ in Warm Springs had not been disclosed.
The President went through a fourth term campaign that was tough for a man of his condition and age. Although early this year he made the grueling /?ɡru?l??/ trip to Yalta /?j?lt?/, he showed signs of increasing weariness/'w?r?n?s/. His voice at press conferences/'kɑnf?r?ns/ was weak, and loose/lus/ folds of skin under his chin/t??n/ were a sign of the weight he had lost.
grueling /?ɡru?l??/ trip
* n. 懲罰；勞累
* adj. 累垮人的尚氛；折磨人的
* v. 使極度疲勞诀诊；累垮（gruel的ing形式）
*
gruel? ? ? [ɡru?l]
英漢翻譯
* vt. 使極度疲勞；累垮
* n. 稀粥
* n. (Gruel)人名阅嘶；(德)格呂爾属瓣；(法)格呂埃爾
* Yalta /?j?lt?/
* n. 雅爾塔（前蘇聯(lián)港市）
* weariness/‘w?r?n?s/
* n. 疲倦载迄，疲勞；厭倦
* press conference
* 記者招待會抡蛙，新聞發(fā)布會
* loose/lus/
* adj. 寬松的护昧；散漫的；不牢固的粗截；不精確的
* vt. 釋放惋耙；開船；放槍
* vi. 變松熊昌；開火
* adv. 松散地
* n. 放縱绽榛；放任；發(fā)射
* n. (Loose)人名婿屹；(捷灭美、瑞典)洛塞；(英)盧斯昂利；(德)洛澤
chin/t??n/
* n. 下巴冲粤；聊天；引體向上動作
* vt. 用下巴夾滓趁小；與…聊天厢呵；在單杠上作引體向上動作
* vi. 閑談窝撵；作引體向上動作
* n. (Chin)人名；(泰)真襟铭；(柬)金碌奉；(越)九；(西)欽
During the last election campaign some of the President’s critics, including some within his own his party, said he would not live out his fourth term. His death today bore/b?r/ them out.
bore/b?r/
* vi. 鉆孔
* vt. 鉆孔寒砖；使煩擾
* n. 孔赐劣；令人討厭的人
* n. (Bore)人名；(法)博爾哩都；(塞魁兼、馬里)博雷
Unpredictable/??npr?'d?kt?bl/ Seizure/'si??/.
Unpredictable/??npr?'d?kt?bl/
* adj. 不可預(yù)知的；不定的漠嵌；出乎意料的
* n. 不可預(yù)言的事
* Seizure/'si??/.
* n. 沒收咐汞；奪取儒鹿；捕獲
Doctors say that a cerebral hemorrhage is not something that can be foretold /f?r?told/. And the President’s death took his entire staff, people who lived with him 24 hours a day, by complete surprise.
The President had planned to make a brief radio address tomorrow night to Jefferson'd?ef?sn/ Day dinners of the Democratic/'d?m?'kr?t?k/ Party over the nation. He had planned to leave Warm Springs on April 18, arriving back in Washington on April 19 and staying there one day before leaving for the United Nations conference in San Francisco.
Jefferson /'d?ef?sn/ Day
Democratic/'d?m?'kr?t?k/
* adj. 民主的化撕；民主政治的；大眾的
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So far from death were the President’s thoughts when he began his last day
which he called his second home
Roosevelt would have tackled /?t?k?l/ his paper work much earlier in the day had not the plane bringing his official pouch /pa?t?/ from Washington been grounded by weather.
But he did not look or act like a man who was going to die in a week.
Doctors say that a cerebral hemorrhage is not something that can be foretold /f?r?told/. And the President’s death took his entire staff, people who lived with him 24 hours a day, by complete surprise.
