How FDR transformed the US presidency
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed the presidency of the United States in 1933. No president accepting Abraham Lincoln had come to office in more challenging circumstances. That's the take of Ewan Morgan, Emeritus Professor of US Studies at UCL. He is the author of a new book on the 32nd president which explores how he changed the role from that of chief clerk to an assertive presence on the world stage.
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