David T. Beito
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first heard Jun 2026
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It didn't.
Although it has some interesting long-term implications because only a few weeks after FDR testified before a very hostile Senate committee about the Newport scandal, 1921, he had his first bout of paralysis.
And he blamed FDR.
the investigation for the rest of his life for bringing on this paralysis.
And he might have had a point in a sense because it is said, or the best theory on this is that he drank some tainted water at a Boy Scout camp and then he came down with his paralysis.
But if that was true,
you become less resistant if you have more emotional distress and more fatigue.
And he certainly qualified in that sense because this was a very difficult time for FDR.
I think that that's part of FDR.
FDR was someone who believed in ideas.
I think he was on the political left.
He wasn't a communist or anything like that.
He was pushing that direction.
But FDR's first priority was FDR, which is not surprising.
He wanted to get reelected and he would back off if he had to.
It isn't the word treachery, but it's sort of interrelated.
Harry Truman, who knew him pretty well, called him the coldest man he ever knew.
He said he didn't care about you.
He didn't care about me.
But, and this is an interesting way that Truman ends it, but he brought the country into the 20th century.
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