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I can't live a normal lifespan.

FDR admitted to Anna Roosevelt, who told Eleanor that news.

He told Admiral Leahy, Bill, I hope the war is wrapped up so I don't have to run for re-election.

Here on the right wing of the attack, Yanks go ashore under fire.

This is it. Oh, That was the big question of 19 full with Roosevelt wrong.

Democratic Convention would happen soon.

Marcus Child sees Franklin Roosevelt in the White House

1944 around April. World War II is raging at this point

and the President's health is in question.

He is one of many reporters summoned by the president for informal and off the

record talks.

It was the way the president could send feelers out about things

he was planning to do and also get the pulse of the country. For a man of 62 plus, Marcus Charles would write, he is very little to argue about.

He felt that F. D.R. was just as charming as he had ever been, despite perhaps the lack of color.

He smoked two or three camels in my presence.

What child couldn't know his doctors had put him on a limit of six camels per day. They were checking his lungs. They were constantly checking his color.

I don't work that hard anymore, he tells child's. I've got this thing simplified.

I imagine I don't work as many hours as you. The habit of power had grown

on him. He wanted to remain in office until the war was won. His own son encouraged him. In the Navy he said that

every single soldier and sailor would consider their commander-in-chief a

quitter if he stepped down now. That's what Franklin Jr. thought.

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