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The Roosevelts
Education Clip: FDR faces great crises
The presidency is like a soft leather glove and it takes the shape of the hand that’s put into it. And when a very big hand is put into it and stretches the glove, stretches the office, the glove never quite shrinks back to what it was.
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Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
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Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.