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nuxvomica

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16. It's like how they managed FDR's image

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2025, 02:52 AM

10 hrs ago

To make him look not so wheelchair-bound. What did that subterfuge get us except the end of the Depression, defeating the Nazis, and more decent lives for the elderly.

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