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Thursday, July 23, 2020
A trip to the last century!
1932: FDR elected
president
In 1932, Democratic presidential candidate
Franklin D. Roosevelt beat incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover with
the Great Depression looming in the background. The 32nd U.S. president, who
would go on to lead the country through World War II, had been paralyzed from
the waist down due to an illness thought at the time to be polio. In this photo
from the FDR Presidential Library & Museum, the presidential hopeful is
pictured campaigning in Warm Springs, Georgia, with Anna Roosevelt Halsted and
Eleanor Roosevelt just two weeks before the election.
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