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American History

no_hypocrisy

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2. Little wonder:

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Apr 12, 2024, 07:58 AM

Apr 2024

1. More than three terms of POTUS;

2. Rescued the country from the Great Depression with his New Deal; and

3. Rescued the world from the AXIS powers during prosecution of the Second World War;

4. Fighting every day the disabilities of polio.

I'm surprised he survived to 63.

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On April 10 and April 11, 1945, President Roosevelt was photographed in Warm Springs, Georgia. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2024 OP

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