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Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935

Makers of the Twentieth Century: Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest-serving American President, has been accused of 'spineless government that betrayed the integrity of American ideals'. S.G.F. Spackman shows us that there are other ways of interpreting his policies.

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