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G2.1-008C
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- 1934-01-30 (Creation)
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, second row center, celebrates his first birthday in the White House with a "toga, toga" party. Copy of photograph donated to Tacoma Public Library by Leon Sides. The pictures were given to Sides by Pulitzer prize winner Kirke L. Simpson (front row center in photo.) FDR, called by his detractors a "prickly Julius Caesar," took the insult to heart and costumed in a toga for his 52nd birthday. He is surrounded by the members of his Cuff Links Club, people to whom he presented cuff links in 1920 when he was a vice presidential candidate. The party, which evolved into an all night poker spree, was kept under wraps for many years until the January 28, 1973 issue of the TNT ran the picture. (TNT 11/5/1978)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 1882-1945; Costumes--Roman; Presidents--United States; Birthday parties--1930-1940; Simpson, Kirke L.;