September 23, 1944: FDR gives a campaign speech to the Teamsters Union denouncing Republican attacks that he had sent a U.S. Navy destroyer to retrieve his dog Fala after leaving him behind on the Aleutian Islands.
![Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech to the Teamsters Union.](http://fdrlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/sep23-1-doc.jpg?w=788&resize=473%2C614)
Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Quonset hut mess hall in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
August 3, 1944
FDR Library Photo Collection. NPx. 48-22:3868(497).
Franklin D. Roosevelt fishing at Kodiak Island, Alaska.
August 7, 1944
FDR Library Photo Collection. NPx. 48-22:3868(498).
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Did you know:
- On September 27, 1938 FDR appealed to German Chancellor Adolf Hitler for a peaceful solution of the Czechoslovakian crisis.
- On September 26, 1940 FDR dedicated the new National Airport in Washington, D.C.
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