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Franklin Roosevelt 🇺🇸 died #OTD 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia. His last known photograph is below. He was sitting for a painting at the time of his death

Harry Truman 🇺🇸 was sworn in as President. Record of the event was taken by the White House Chief Usher (below)
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Actual conversation between Eleanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman 🇺🇸:

Eleanor Roosevelt: "Harry, the President is dead.”
Harry Truman: “Is there anything I can do for you?”
Eleanor Roosevelt: "Is there anything we can do for you, Harry? For you are the one in trouble now.”
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt 🇺🇸, who died #OTD 1945, is the last President to die in office of a cause other than an assassination.
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FDR's 🇺🇸 funeral train, making a three day trip through 9 states, carried his family,
Truman 🇺🇸 and his family,
the entire SCOTUS,
and most of his cabinet...

All in one vulnerable place...

During a world war.....

Probably not the best idea the government ever had.
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The death of FDR 🇺🇸, who died #OTD 1945, a comment by Ralph McGill (of the Atlanta Constitution)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt 🇺🇸, who died #OTD 1945, is buried at his home, the Springwood Estate in Hyde Park, NY.
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