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Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death

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The History of FDR

FDR's previous running mate, Henry Wallace, had made a lot of enemies on the more conservative side of the Democratic Party because he opposed racial segregation. He was replaced at the 1944 convention with Harry S. Truman against Roosevelt's wishes. This resulted in an antagonistic and confrontational policies that led to the Cold War and arguably the dropping of the bomb.

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