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Frances Perkins

He could be charming and witty, but also devious and cruel, said aides closest to Franklin Roosevelt.

A few years ago Bill Mauldin drew a cartoon to commemorate an unsung hero: a gardener at Hyde Park who had firmly resisted the temptation to write his memoirs of President Roosevelt.

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