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How FDR's Death Changed Vice Presidency
Seventy years ago this week, on April 12, 1945, while he was sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke what were probably his last...
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Henry A. Wallace, handpicked as vice president by Franklin Roosevelt, would have liked President Obama. In 1942, Wallace called for federal support for education—a novel...
FDR, Nixon and the Politics of Pooches
President Obama is in New York ahead of his address Tuesday to the United Nations. But this date in history is the anniversary of two very different kind of political...
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