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People Archives:Theodore Roosevelt

Photo of James Michael Curley bending the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

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Second Presidential Inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt, East Portico of U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., USA, Harry Warnecke, Robert F. Cranston, January 20, 1937

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