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The Roosevelts
Education Clip: FDR and the Press
Roosevelt forms a cabinet of remarkable talent and broad backgrounds. Together they usher the passage of 15 transformative laws in the first 100 days. FDR befriends the press and uses them as a tool during his presidency.
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