Franklin Delano Roosevelt portrait, Face-to-Face talk



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Face-to-Face, from the National Portrait Gallery show

Summary: Warren Perry, researcher at NPG, discusses FDR and his role in turning back Prohibition. As part of the National Portrait Gallery's regular "Face-to-Face" portrait talks, NPG researcher Warren Perry discussed Roosevelt and his role in turning back Prohibition. This 1945 portrait of FDR, by artist Douglas Granville Chandor, can be viewed in the America's Presidents exhibition, on the museum's first floor. Recorded at NPG, December 4, 2008. Image info: Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Douglas Granville Chandor, 1945 / Oil on canvas/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution