Lynn Bassanese began working at FDR Presidential Library and Museum as part-time archives aides in 1972 while a student at nearby Marist College. She is now the director of the library and museum and has largely overseen this $35 million, nine-year restoration and redesign project that we are celebrating this morning.
She was also front and center at yesterday’s rededication here at America’s first Presidential Library and the only one used by a sitting President.