Podcasts. Eleanor roosevelt began the long trip home. Slowly the long, black funeral train pulls up then down the pennsylvania avenue to the beat of muffled drums the president was born for the last time to the executive mansion that for 12 years had been his official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. Drawn by six white horses, the flag draped casson was brought to the white house and carried into the great east room where 80 years before almost to the day the body of Abraham Lincoln also laid in state. At hyde park his ancestral home in duchess county, new york the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man of destiny known around the world as f. D. R. To measure something of his greatness we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaign. To the time when only 28 years of age he was elected new york state senator