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In 1938 Roosevelt appointed Landon vice chairman of the Inter-American Conference in Peru. During World War I I Landon roused Republican opponents to support some of Roosevelt's policies. After the war Landon attended to his business interests. Although he was respected as a party elder he had little influence.
Sources:
Donald R. McCoy, Landon of Kansas (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966);
Frederick Palmer, This Man Landon: The Record and Career of Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas, revised and enlarged edition (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936);
William Allen White, What It's All About: Being a Reporter's Story of the Early Campaign of 1936 (New York: Macmillan, 1936).
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