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Roosevelt, Wilkie and the 1940 Presidential Election

Roosevelt, Wilkie and the 1940 Presidential Election



With ever more alarming new unfolding in Europe and the fate of Britain hanging in the balance, Franklin Roosevelt decided to stand for re-election for a second time, breaking with tradition that a president serves a maximum two terms. Facing him was the former Democrat Wendell Wilkie, a political outsider who rejected isolationism just as Roosevelt did.

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