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7. He was anything but a tired old man...

Reply to empedocles (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 21, 2021, 07:56 PM

Apr 2021

He put hundreds of thousands of people to work on infrastructure and the interstate system, and helped get the US back to work after the war.

I'm not saying he was perfect, but he was good for the country when we needed him.

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