The Roosevelts on PBS.. so much like the Obama administration

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51. OK... I'm back

Thank you for leading me to the site. I wasn't aware that they would be showing it online at the same time it was showing on TV. I hope PO has been able to watch the series thus far.

A little story for you told to me by my Mother in her last years on this earth: My grandfather was a big Republican organizer in the midwest town/county where Mummy was raised (rural Indiana.) Mummy played the trumpet and was in the Rebublican youths "bugle corps" (brass band.) The day before election day in Nov 1935, they all bussed to Indianapolis to be in a big pre-election day parade. It was raining cats and dogs that day, but that didn't dampen the enthusiasm of either side of the political divide. As Mummy was marching along (on the outside line, next to the crowd on her side of the street) she said she heard some men holler" "It'll be a cold day in Hell before FDR is elected again!" The next day, FDR was reelected again, the temperature dropped the night before and the rain from the day before had frozen into and sheet of ice, and there was a blizzard all day, to boot. Mummy died a staunch Democrat.