d the White House under control.In the election of 1944, Roosevelt was ready to retire, but felt it was his duty to run for the fourth term, especially since the war was still going on. He had no problem getting renominated and Harry S. Truman was nominated as Vice-President. The Republicans thought that the "fourth term" was unfair and felt that Roosevelt was in poor health. But this did not stop him from winning yet another election, this one also a landslide. In his final inaugural address, he told the United States that they learned "they cannot live alone at peace, that their own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away" (Johnson 1967, p. 353).When Roosevelt started his fourth term, his health was really starting to weaken. But his Presidency still went on, so he never let a cold or minor weight loss stop him. In February 1945, he met with Churchill and Stalin for the Yalta Conference in the Soviet Union. The "Big Three" discussed plans for organizing a peace treaty with the United Nations once the war ended. But it was at this time that Roosevelt began to have doubts about the Soviets. He told Churchill to keep on top of Stalin and keep Roosevelt posted if any changes occurred. Franklin D. Roosevelt was then headed to Warm Springs for a break from politics and time to just relax and rest. He spent only a very short time there before his death. The night of April 12th, the President had a horrible headache, which caused a cerebral hemorrhage that then spread throughout his body. With the news of his death, Americans gathered around the White House, filled with silence and grief. Roosevelt had prepared a "fireside chat" for the following day, which the First Lady later shared with the nation. The last words written by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, that he brought such a long way, were, "To you, and all Americans who dedicate themselves with us to the making of an abiding peace, I say: t...
