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Barring an extreme radical or an extreme reactionary, almost any citizen of integrity would be better to have in the White House than Mr. Roosevelt.

Thus, in the autumn of 1935, wrote Manhattan Banker James P. Warburg in Hell Bent for Election. Last week, in the most dramatic reversal of the campaign, this early, vehement and brilliant member of the "anybody but Roosevelt" school announced his intention to vote for Franklin Roosevelt's reelection.

Brisk and personable young "Jimmy" Warburg welcomed Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 with high enthusiasm, took his place as one of...

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