Franklin Delano Roosevelt A Man of the Century

Marshal of the Royal Airforce. Churchill said goodbye to Roosevelt and then turned to
Kenneth Pendar, the American Vice Consul, and said: “Come Pendar, let’s go home. I
don’t like to see them take off.” The sun was breaking through the ground mist and the
outline of the mountains was beginning to appear. Eric Larrabee writes that the aircraft,
though large by the standards of the time, must have seemed tiny in all that vastness. In
the car Churchill put his hand on Pendar’s arm. “If anything happened to that man,” he
said, “I couldn’t stand it. He is the truest friend; he has the farthest vision; he is the
greatest man I have ever known.”
How proud we can be that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a man of the Century.
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