Photographing FDR

In harnessing the media technologies of his day, FDR grew keenly aware of the their nuance and power.
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In harnessing the media technologies of his day, FDR grew keenly aware of their nuance and power. In an encounter with famed actor Orson Welles in the late thirties, he commented, almost surely without irony, "Orson, you and I are surely the two best actors in this country."

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