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Digging deep: for some stories, the roots go way back, even to childhood.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Publication: Smithsonian Publication Date: 01-MAY-05 Author: Winfrey, Carey
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Researching Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1937 attempt to pack the U.S. Supreme Court ("Showdown on the Court," p. 106), historian William E. Leuchtenburg encountered a note handwritten to a Southern U.S. Senator. It read: "If you don't come across with the money, I'm going to tell your wife everything." He declines to say which Southern senator, but stay tuned. Sounds like a story to me.
Leuchtenburg got hooked on politics and...
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