N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 3.110
The year 1982 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 44th Governor of the State of New York and the 32nd President of the United States.
The people of the Empire State can take great pride in the life and achievements of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Born in Hyde Park on January 30, 1882, he began his political career in 1910 in the New York State Senate. He was one of New York's major contributions to the administration of Woodrow Wilson, serving as an Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the First World War. Though crippled by an attack of polio in 1921, he nevertheless returned to public affairs and in 1928 was elected to the first of two terms as Governor of the State of New York. In 1933 he went on to Washington to become the first and only man elected four times president of the Republic.
As President, he led the nation during its two worst crises of the Twentieth Century--the Great Depression and the Second World War. Coming into office with the economy in collapse, he told the people that they had nothing to fear but fear itself and, with that great spirit, he organized a legislative program that permanently transformed American life. The New Deal reforms--social security and unemployment compensation; farm price supports; conservation and development of natural resources; Federal guarantees of collective bargaining; regulation of the stock exchanges; insurance of bank deposits; and so much more--reflected his abiding quest for the humanization of industrial society, and for economic security within a frame of political freedom.
As the United States struggled out of the depression under his bold and imaginative leadership, the world outside entered a period of turbulence and danger. From an early point, President Roosevelt understood the menace of fascism in Europe and imperialism in Japan. His Good Neighbor Policy promoted the unity of the Western Hemisphere, and, though impeded by rigid neutrality legislation, he strove perseveringly to awaken the country to the threat of international aggression. When Pearl Harbor was attacked and war broke upon American shores, his eloquence, courage and determination released the energies of American production and inspired the sacrifices of America's armed forces.
Death came to President Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. He was removed from the stage of life on the brink of total victory. The Four Freedoms and United Nations remain as the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's lifelong search for world peace and justice.
All Americans--and New Yorkers especially--remember him for his personal example of triumph over physical adversity; for his unfailing buoyancy, cheer and hope; for the force and intimacy of his fireside chats; for his concern for the poor, the unemployed, the minorities, and the third of a nation that was ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-fed; for his conviction that government could be made an instrument of the general welfare; and for his invincible confidence in the American future and in the future of humanity.
A controversial figure in his time, he is recalled today by men and women of all parties as a great and exhilarating leader who renewed popular faith in the efficacy of democratic government and in the vitality of our nation's best ideals.
All New Yorkers will wish to join in the commemoration of this most renowned New Yorker.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Hugh L. Carey, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the State of New York, do hereby establish a State Commission to Commemorate the Centennial of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and do hereby proclaim 1982 as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Year in the State of New York.
Signed: Hugh L. CareyDated: October 14, 1981
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 3.110