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President Biden... no I mean Roosevelt

Setting aside the hot gossip of FDR's personal life, the 32nd POTUS started his political career as New York state senator in 1910. Interestingly enough, Roosevelt was recruited by the democratic party because of his relation to the former President. Imagine being begged to become a political figure because of your last name. If the Korean President was a Song, I'd be one of 683,000 recruited to the state senate!

FDR kept climbing his way up and even ran alongside Governor Cox as the Vice-President candidate in the 1920s. In 1928, Hoover won the election. During this time, Roosevelt went to become New York governor. We all know that soon after, the Great Depression hit, and it comes to no one's surprise that people wanted change. I mean take a look at this past year, our economy and unemployment took a hit because of the pandemic. The people wanted change, and people got change... Biden. So history repeats itself because Roosevelt, as a democrat, ended the string of Republican Presidents preceding him.

https://time.com/5904569/joe-biden-fdr/

Take a look at this link from Times! Maybe I should change my major to history--- I'm already making those historical connections. *Patting myself on the back right now.

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