History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1501 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Roosevelt Before the Presidency
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The idea
Franklin D. Roosevelt served in the New York senate and as assistant secretary of the Navy, and ran for vice president in nineteen twenty.
In practice
Polio in nineteen twenty-one, leaving him, the anchor says, essentially paralysed from the waist down.
Where people slip
He won New York's governorship in nineteen twenty-eight, one of few Democrats to survive that year's landslide, Digital History notes.
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