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The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
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Leading 19th- and 20th-century American mainstream weekly magazine
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Norman Rockwell
American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
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Four Freedoms (Rockwell)
1943 painting series by Norman Rockwell
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States from 1933 to 1945
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State of the Union
Annual report by the president of the United States
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Four Freedoms
1941 State of the Union goals
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech, he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:Freedom of speech and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)