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The Roosevelts
Education Clip: War Machine
Congress grants Roosevelt sweeping wartime powers to reorganize American industry. Roosevelt found himself working hand-in-glove with many “economic royalists” who hated him earlier. He put necessity above ideology, granted big contracts to big industry and overlooked trusts infringements and raised taxes on ordinary Americans.
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Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
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