Roosevelt At Washington Dinner Lner (1938)

Titles read: “ROOSEVELT AT WASHINGTON DINNER“. Washington, Columbia, United States of America. On Jackson Day we see President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt at a charity dinner “to eat up the democratic committee deficit“. Roosevelt receives applause, then makes a speech about “the continuing menace of the comparatively small number of people who honestly believe in their superior right to influence and direct government“. He says it is a case of a 96 inch dog being wagged by a 4 inch tail. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont B
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