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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. FDR D-Day Prayer Christmas Broadside. A rare surviving example of the lithographic Christmas 1944 broadside presented to members of the White House staff by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 21 x 14”. In multicolored illuminated Gothic type it features the president’s national address, as broadcast the night of the Normandy Invasion. Roosevelt is said to have written this prayer as the news of the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion began to trickle out of Europe. Linen backed, with restored staining and soiling not affecting lettered area.