HYDE PARK, N.Y. (AP) – Bernie Sanders says the nation can learn from the courage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his willingness to “stand up to the most powerful interests of his time.”
The Democratic presidential candidate made a surprise visit to Roosevelt’s home and presidential library in Hyde Park, New York, on Tuesday. The Vermont senator paused to pay his respects at the gravesite of the late president and first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Sanders tells reporters that Roosevelt was one of the nation’s great presidents, guiding the country through the Great Depression and creating a government “which stood up for working people, the poor, the hungry and the sick.”
Sanders has long admired Roosevelt and pointed to him last year as a proponent of the senator’s brand of “democratic socialism.”