Last night, President Biden addressed the American people from the Oval Office, from behind

the Resolute Desk, flanked by the flags of the Office of President of the United States

and the American flag. This is the seat of America's power.

This is the office where Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sat together and where FDR mixed cocktails for the British Prime Minister during history's darkest hours.

When a great access controlled much of the world's territory and vast swaths of its oceans.

In that moment in time, a gun was pointed at America, and freedom was greatly threatened.

In the end, 405,000 Americans would die in the Second World

War. Franklin Roosevelt always suspected, always knew the dangers ahead. He knew the inevitability

of war because he knew the character of the Axis powers.

Today is not then, but there are parallels.

The world that we live in today was certainly shaped by Franklin Roosevelt and his broad vision

and epic imagination.

He talked about the world that would emerge after the Second World War

with a lot of optimism.

FDR imagined a world of four freedoms,

freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

He talked about these freedoms.

He talked about his aspirations, both publicly and privately.

His greatest vision was a world at peace.

And all of the institutions that have existed for the last 80 years that have built that world are under stress and under threat.

And that is what he talked about last night.

He talked about this country, the richest nation in the history of the world,

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