President Franklin Delano Roosevelt didn’t want a grand monument like the one that's now on the Mall. Rather, he said if there was to be a memorial to him, he preferred it to be a plain block about the size of a desk that would be placed in front of the Archives Building. His request was honored in 1965, with this small stone slab.
FDR Memorial Stone
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