Old Glory raised before the Four Freedoms exhibit.

Old Glory raised before the Four Freedoms exhibit.

Designers, painters, printmakers, writers, sloganeers, and poster artists created stamps, billboards, pamphlets, woodcuts, prints, murals, and even a sculpture -- at Roosevelt's request -- to bring the President's message to a broad public. A month before Pearl Harbor, the Office of Emergency Management commissioned Jean Carlu to mount an exhibit, a photomontage that traveled to scores of American cities explaining during the war years "why we fight."