Bill Moyers Essay: Bill Moyers Remembers the Day FDR Died

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Sixty-nine years ago, on April 12, 1945, just weeks into his fourth term of office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away. Many Americans had known no other president. Bill, an 11-year-old growing up in Texas, reflects on his father’s reaction to the death of the man who led his nation through the Great Depression and World War II.

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