As Franklin D Roosevelt faced an unprecedented 4th term as president, he would be treating new ground in more ways than one. Victory was achieved in WW2 and he prepared to shape the postwar world and size up to a new enemy, the Soviets. Still hiding his illhealth from the public, more secrets from his past would rise to the surface.

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