Two significant things happened eighty years ago, on this date.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in the afternoon at Warm Springs, Georgia.

FDR had been president since 1933.

Later that day, Vice-President Harry Truman was summoned to The White House and told the news by Eleanor Roosevelt.

The “new” president asked Mrs. Roosevelt, “Is there anything I can do for you?”

Mrs. Roosevelt placed her hand on Truman’s shoulder and asked, “Harry, is there anything we can do for you, for you are the one in trouble, now.”