"The Morgenthaus: A Legacy of Service"

As Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau prepares to step down after 34 years in office, the museum looks at both his and his family’s legacy of public service. His father, Henry Morgenthau Jr., served as the Secretary of the Treasury under FDR, while his grandfather Henry Morgenthau Sr. was the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I.