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He sided with Churchill. He ignored his military advisers. As commander in chief of the United States during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the controls of America’s war-making apparatus more firmly than any president since Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War. FDR was not a military meddler in the mold of Winston …
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