THE PRESIDENCY: Foxy Grandpa

For a President who loves both traveling and political maneuvering, nothing is more fun than to combine the two. In high good humor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week boarded a train at Hyde Park, N.Y., to spend twelve days doing exactly that. Ostensible purpose of the trip was to see his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in Seattle, pick up first-hand impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer...

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