FDR’s D-Day Prayer Showed Us What a True Leader Looks Like

On June 6, 1944, Franklin Roosevelt went on the radio and led the nation in prayer. Avoiding any trace of bluster, he asked not for conquest but for a better world.

Nicolaus Mills

Published Jun. 5 2019 11:16AM EDT 

Nicolaus Mills

nmills@sarahlawrence.edu

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