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Beloved by many farmers, laborers, and unemployed Americans, Roosevelt was reelected in 1936 with a landslide victory over Republican Alfred M. Landon. In 1937, confident in his popularity with the American people, he made what was probably his most serious political mistake, causing an uproar with his plan to "pack" the U.S. Supreme Court with justices sympathetic to his New Deal agenda. By 1939 his attention was focused increasingly on the coming war, and by the early 1940s "Dr. Win-the-War" had, as he said, replaced "Dr. New Deal." He toiled indefatigably during World War II, and as his health grew frail he traveled abroad several times to meet with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin to coordinate military strategy and plan the postwar peace. Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 12 April 1945 at Warm Springs, Georgia.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Age of Roosevelt, 3 volumes (Boston...
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