Visits to college classrooms, museums, and historic places. Exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan3. I am the director of the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum here on the campus of George Washington university in the heart of washington, d. C. Four freedomss exhibition celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Norman Rockwell museum, the 75th dday, and of putting on the rose the great images Norman Rockwell painted the created a National Concept of the four freedoms that made visible, tangible, and real the ideological concepts president roosevelt expressed in the state of the Union Address in 1941. [newsreel video] pres. Roosevelt the first is freedom of speech and expression anywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want, which translated into world terms means economic , understandings which will nation, ar every healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants
Ideological concepts president roosevelt expressed in the state of the Union Address in 19 for th41. The first is freedom of speech and expression anywhere in the world. Is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way anywhere in the world. The third is freedom from , translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure for every nation a healthy peacetime for its inhabitants everywhere in the world. Fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a that and in such a fashion no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor anywhere in the world. [applause] what people forget today is that the concept of four freedoms did not take immediate hold in the national psyche. A few artists made images of freedoms, there was talk of freedoms, but it did not capture the imagination the way people would be excited about until Norman Rockwell. Four paintin