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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a member of one of the wealthiest families in the nation, one that could trace its American heritage back to a Dutch farmer who settled in New Netherlands in 1644, not long before it was ceded to the British and became New York. Aristocratic, handsome, and well educated, he might have been a snob, but he was not. His charismatic charm and reassuring, patrician fatherliness made him remarkably popular with the American people throughout his presidency. One measure of the people's affection for Roosevelt was the large number of portraits of him that ordinary Americans hung on the walls of their homes. Another was the enormous amount of mail he received.
On average about five thousand Americans in all walks of life wrote to President Roosevelt each day. In the week after his first inauguration alone, almost half a million Americans...
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