The name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt first appeared in TIME on Page 7 of our eighth issue, datelined April 2L, 1923.

In a report prophetically headed "The People's Voice," we told how he was "rapidly improving in health" and had stopped over in Washington to leave a suggestion in the political pool: a law calling for national referenda on big issues. "How else could the will of the people be discovered?"

Since then, TIME has given far more space to recording the extraordinary career and achievements of Franklin Roosevelt than to any other man. Eight times he has appeared on our cover--three times as Man of the Year.

The first of these cover stories was printed way back in our thirteenth issue, for TIME was not among the many who believed his tragic attack of infantile paralysis had cut short his career. He was Businessman Roosevelt then, head of the American Construction Council, which had just sponsored a plan for curtailing credit and deferring new construction to curb runaway building costs. Recalling how " 'See young Roosevelt about it had once been a byword in Washington," TIME called him "a leading citizen ever since he took office as President of the Harvard Crimson."

The next time he appeared on TIME'S cover was in February 1932, when he formally announced his presidential candidacy.

Then after the election he was TIME'S Man of the Year, for "to millions & millions of 'forgotten men' he was a big-jawed, happy Messiah whose 'new deal' would somehow put money into everybody's pocket." He was Man of the Year again after the Congressional election in 1934, when "the voters' verdict was not a mere stamp of approval; it was a paean of acclamation"--and he was Man of the Year for a third time after Pearl Harbor made him America's sixth wartime President, the leader of the nation in a deadly war of survival.

Said TIME then: "In his own right and on his own record, President Roosevelt stood out as a figure of the year and of the age. His smiling courage in the face of panic, his resourcefulness in meeting unprecedented threats to the nation's economy and morale, his sanguine will have placed him there."

The face of Franklin Roosevelt last appeared on TIME'S cover on the eve of Teheran in November 1943.

Let TIME'S tribute to a great American be the words our Editors wrote then:

"As future visitors ... gaze at the mementos of Franklin Roosevelt, they will be well aware that he was an extraordinary man, with an extraordinary consciousness of history and of his part in it. .

"The American people may be possessed of a deep sense of the world crisis in which they are involved, may be growing aware that their generation is shaping the history of the world. Perhaps

Americans must sacrifice old dislikes, perhaps even material advantages, to win to that better world.

"In the person of their President, Franklin Roosevelt, they stand on the threshold of that world today."

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