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President Lincoln gets up close and personal with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Madame Tussauds, London, 1937
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President Lincoln gets up close and personal with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Madame Tussauds, London, 1937
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Frances De Rham, Campobello, 1910
(from LIFE magazine, May 30, 1949)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1902
(from LIFE magazine, May 30, 1949)
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The Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, January 7, 1916
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Carlisle Evening Herald, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1908
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, April 28, 1908
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Evening Star, Washington DC, April 13, 1896
Police commissioner Roosevelt would be elected president five years later.
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Restaurant, Aberdeen, South Dakota, November 1940
(Wendell Willkie was the Republican candidate for the 1940 presidential election, running against Roosevelt, who he remained close with until his death in 1944)
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Albert Sheetz, Los Angeles, 1933
Roosevelt Special Sandwich 35¢
Hormel Ham, Lettuce and Tomato, Mayonaise
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Welcome Mrs. Roosevelt, First Lady of the Land, employment agency, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 1937
When this was read to Mrs. Roosevelt her only comment was:
“What a perfectly dreadful thing to say.”
New York, July 12, 1921