Chief Executive Receives First ‘Buddy’ Poppy – Little Muriel Morgan came from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Home for Widows and Orphans of ex-services men in Faton Rapids, Michigan, to present President Roosevelt with the first Buddy Poppy to officially open the 1934 National Poppy Sale conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. James E. Van Zandt, Commander-in-chief of the VFW, is also shown in the photograph