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Like his friend and Harvard classmate Charles Bonaparte , ( Roosevelt had a patrician's disdain for greedy businessmen , a patrician's sense of noblesse oblige toward the downtrodden , and a patrician's fear of socialism or some other ...
Like his friend and Harvard classmate Charles Bonaparte , ( Roosevelt had a patrician's disdain for greedy businessmen , a patrician's sense of noblesse oblige toward the downtrodden , and a patrician's fear of socialism or some other ...
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2 The German troops had hardly swept through Belgium before Roosevelt emerged as the leader of a get - tough faction , which advocated a policy that became increasingly indistinguishable from a demand for war . The ex - President spared ...
2 The German troops had hardly swept through Belgium before Roosevelt emerged as the leader of a get - tough faction , which advocated a policy that became increasingly indistinguishable from a demand for war . The ex - President spared ...
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Roosevelt paused , calmly brushed a speck from his manuscript . “ We do not distrust the future . . . . The people of the United States have not failed . In their need they have . . . asked for discipline and direction under leadership ...
Roosevelt paused , calmly brushed a speck from his manuscript . “ We do not distrust the future . . . . The people of the United States have not failed . In their need they have . . . asked for discipline and direction under leadership ...
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