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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 450%; text-align: center;">Franklin D. Roosevelt DIES!

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 70%;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FDR_in_1933.jpg <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Yesterday, April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt died at the age of 63 do to a stroke. This brings to end a four-term presidency, the only four-term president in the history of the United States. The tragedy cut short a life of achievement: Roosevelt overcame polio, prelacies, the greatest economic conflict in US history, and a plethora of other adversity. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Roosevelt began his career in politics, in 1910 when he was elected to the New York State Senate. He eventually rose in power to governor of New York in 1928, and finally to president in 1933. He maintained his office until yesterday when a cerebral hemorrhage ended his life and fourth term. When first elected to the presidency he was faced with the task of creating sustainable economic reform. During the first 100 days of his first term he created the new deal. Within its stipulations the AAA, CCC, and WPA were created. Roosevelt took care to avoid war but when, five years ago, the Japanese attacked of Pearl Harbor lead us in to war he lead us to, our current state, the brink of victory.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 240%; text-align: center;">Roosevelt's Life <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882. He was the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt went to Groton Preparatory School in Massachusetts. After high school, he attended Harvard and received a BA degree in only 3 years. Roosevelt then attended Columbia University and studied Law, but after passing the bar exam, he left without his degree. Franklin Roosevelt married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a distant relative, and they had six children. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">F.D.R. was elected as the New York State Senate in 1910. In 1912, he was reelected as State Senate, and because of his support for Woodrow Wilson, he was named the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Because of his energetic and efficient personality, he was nominated for Vice-President in 1920. But because of Wilson’s support for the not-so-popular idea of the League of Nations, Warren Harding was elected president, sending Roosevelt back to a quiet life, where he was diagnosed with polio. He soon organized an organization to support other polio victims, and eventually raised enough money to fund a vaccine.

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 70%;">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Rooseveltinwheelchair.jpg <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">In 1928, Roosevelt was elected Governor of New York. Roosevelt soon after began his campaign for presidency. He won the nomination for Democratic Party candidate for president. He was finally elected president in 1932 by a seven million-vote lead. After his inauguration the depression became great and therefore it was named “The Great Depression”. Factories closed, Farm foreclosures, bank failures, and unemployment soared. Roosevelt introduced his new deal program, which helped resurrect his economy. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 70%;">http://www.xtimeline.com/__UserPic_Large/1696/ELT200711110936144056280.JPG media type="youtube" key="MX_v0zxM23Q" height="390" width="480" align="center"

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Roosevelt organized, and ran, the Armed forces and effectively fulfilled his role as Commander-in-Chief. He attempted to form a grand alliance against the Axis powers through the formation of the United Nations. All nations fighting with the United States pledged themselves to the peacekeeping organization called the United Nations upon victory. After the D-day landings on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th, 1944, followed by the allied Invasion of Germany six months later insured victory over the Axis powers. Roosevelt died on the eve of complete military victory in Europe. //<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">(Franklin D. Roosevelt; Presidential Library and Museum; F.D.R. Biography.) //

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**<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Harry S. Truman is the 33rd president ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> Harry Truman is the new president in the wake of Franklin Roosevelt’s death. The former vice president is a veteran of world war one. He was also a judge in Jackson County and a senator in Missouri This experience will help him very much in the presidential office in a war torn world. During his presidency, Truman promises to find a prompt solution resolving the conflicts in Europe and Asia. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">This article continues on page A3

**<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Allied Forces Advance on Berlin **

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Allied forces are finally on the offensive. Advancing Allied soldiers has retaken numerous former German controlled cities; the recent events have raised the moral of U.S. soldiers in the European theater. Yesterday, Great Britain’s second army capture the German controlled city of Celle sixty miles from Hamburg one of the largest cities in all of Germany. German counterattacks seem futile in front of the unstoppable Allied war machine. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Article continues on page A4

**<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">You are running out of time to see The Clock ** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 70%;">http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/199475.1020.A.jpg <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"> Critics agree that this moving love story is an instant classic. The story tells of Joe Allen, played by Robert Walker, going on a forty-eight hour military leave. At a train station, he meets his future love interest Alice Mayberry. The film follows the couple as they pursue their love. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">See the full review on page D2.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">en.wikipedia.com/wiki/The_Clock_(film)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">www.worldwar-2.net
 * <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">www.youtube.com