Whenever I viewed the capitol building on my walks, I always thought about Aunt Doris and President Franklin Roosevelt. Aunt Doris was an enormous supporter of President Roosevelt, and I think she was an even stronger admirer of the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. One of the proudest moments in Aunt Doris’s life was Saturday October 10, 1936. The President and first lady arrived in Lincoln at the Burlington railroad station shortly after 1 p.m. on a campaign tour stumping for re-election in the 1936 presidential election. They rode in a car from the train station up O Street and then to the north side of K Street. A raised platform had been erected there that faced the north entrance to the Capitol. Aunt Doris had gotten to the Capitol almost two hours before the President did to guarantee her a place on the top step so she would have an unobstructed view of the President. She watched the President walk, holding the arm of his bodyguard, from his car up a ramp to the platform. She always said the crowd, which numbered close…show more content… Every one of them ought to come here to see it in the light – a great and worthy structure, worthy of a great state…
…There never has been, and there never will be a federal tax on farms and homes as long as I have anything to do with it… He ended his 15-minute speech with “I believe, I know the American people know how to separate the wheat from the chaff, and that's why I am confident of their verdict November 3.” She said the crowd roared its approval. She said part of the phrase “old friends” was meant for Nebraska Senator George W. Norris. The President was also visiting Nebraska to campaigning for Senator Norris, who was one of his staunchest allies in Congress. Norris had broken from the Republican Party and was running for a fifth term in the Senate as an
