Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 12 Years In Power

Very Presidential with Ashley Flowers

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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FDR was president for over a decade — plenty of time to curate a rotating cast of love interests, including the Princess of Norway and his own daughter-in-law. But if the White House living arrangements were made somewhat awkward by his constant need for companionship, FDR didn’t seem to notice. He was busy handling crisis after crisis… and manufacturing a few of his own, too. To view this episode’s full list of sources, please visit parcast.com/verypresidential Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's face it, most of us know FDR as Teddy Roosevelt's boring cousin.
0:10.0	He isn't exactly remembered for his personality, so you'd be surprised to find out that behind
0:15.8	the scenes his White House was a soap opera.
0:20.2	All passion and melodrama, a rotating cast of love interests, many of them living in the
0:26.7	White House residents at the same time.
0:29.7	A quirky housekeeper for comic relief and like all soap operas, it keeps running for way
0:36.3	longer than it should have.
0:38.7	But FDR was no quitter.
0:40.8	He was literally going to be president until his dying day.
0:58.5	Welcome to very presidential, a Spotify original from Parkast.
1:02.8	I'm your host Ashley Flowers.
1:04.8	You can find all episodes of very presidential and all other originals from Parkast for
1:09.7	free on Spotify.
1:12.0	Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the reason why term limits exist.
1:16.5	He was president for 12 years.
1:20.2	And it could have been 16 if he hadn't died a few months into his fourth term.
1:24.7	He kept getting elected because he knew how to handle a crisis.
1:29.2	And there were a lot of them.
1:30.7	The Great Depression, World War II, complications from polio that left him paralyzed for life.
1:37.2	And of course, the slow motion collapse of his own marriage.
1:44.2	We'll dig up the truth right after this.
1:46.6	Stay with us.
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