Warm Springs

Louis McHenry Howe: I can't quite picture you in the back woods of Georgia. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Well, where do you picture me, Louis? Louis McHenry Howe: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: [on first arriving at Warm Springs] I can't stay here. This place is a wreck. Eleanor Roosevelt: Franklin. Tom Loyless: Look on the bright side, most of your time will be spent in the water. Look, we've fallen on some hard times... Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Hard times?! This place should be condemned! Tom Loyless: [short pause] Yes, it's true, we've seen better days. But then, I imagine, so have you. [short pause] I'd be happy to drive you back to the train station right now if that's what you'd like? Eleanor Roosevelt: My husband is concerned. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fire. [short pause] I'm very frightened of fire. I can't get out if I'm upstairs I... Tom Loyless: Oh, of course. We have other options.

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Helena Mahoney: I feel like I've been brought here under false pretenses. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Join the club.

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Louis McHenry Howe: Why are you a Democrat? Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Democratic Party is the party of the people, and I'm a man of the people. Louis McHenry Howe: You're a Roosevelt. Since when does a Roosevelt know about people?

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You want to stay? Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Yes. Eleanor Roosevelt: New York has the best doctors and hospitals in the country. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I need something new. Eleanor Roosevelt: This isn't about getting better, is it? You don't want to come home. You don't want to live with us. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I refuse to be a burden to anyone-- Eleanor Roosevelt: You're not a burden, you're my husband. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: I want to offer you the freedom you once so generously offered me. Listen, all you've ever known is duty to me and to a political career and unless I can walk again, no longer exists. You've been...exemplary. Now I'm telling you...that your free to go. Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't want freedom. I want a marriage. I want a life with you. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Perhaps I can't imagine what you think that life is going to be. Eleanor Roosevelt: Oh, Franklin. It's not up to me to imagine. It's up to you.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't talk to me as if I were a child! Eleanor Roosevelt: How am I supposed to talk to you? Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Like I was! Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't know how to any more.

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