President Roosevelt died on April 12, of a brain hemorrhage. Elizebeth was crushed. She had never liked politicians, but Roosevelt was the exception, a man who seemed both decent and brilliant, who believed in democracy, science, equality, and international cooperation, values she held dear, and Elizebeth feared that in his absence, “evil influences” like the Ku Klux Klan would sweep the country: “Our country will go on. But who can say what catastrophic results will come from his going? Or worse, the results, hidden, subversive, that take place with no fanfare, no appearance on the surface,
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