The Century: America's Time1999

Doris Kearns Goodwin:
[about FDR's death] : "You could see the impact that his life had made on the American people when that famous trainride took place from Warm Springs Georgia to Washington D.C. Hundreds of thousands of people had come out just to see his body go by on the train simply as a tribute to the fact that this man had been their leader through the two greatest crises of their lives, first the depression and then the war itself"