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Who advised FDR on foreign policy before and during WWII?
My Question: Did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) have any primary adviser/advisors (established foreign policy wonks), whom he listened too? Was it all just him?
A President's chief ...
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Did FDR support Hoover for the presidency of the US in 1920?
Franklin Foer writes in a new Guardian article:
Americans of all persuasions began yearning for the salvific
ascendance of the most famous engineer of his time: Herbert Hoover. In
1920, ...
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Is this anecdote about Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill true?
The first time I heard the story about the plans for German officers once the surrender happened was that Stalin wanted to summarily execute 50 thousand of them, Churchill was very angry about this ...
