HISTORIANS ON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT’S TIME IN THE WHITE HOUSE
In this segment, historians Richard Norton Smith, William Seale and Doris Kearns Goodwin talk about the significance of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s time in the White House. The Roosevelts and their extended family and friends lived there longer than any other first couple, from 1933-1945. During this time, the White House West and East wings were expanded, a new Oval Office was built that has been in use since then, and the grounds of the White House took the shape that they still have today.