Roosevelt kept the country guessing right up until the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago in July 1940. On the second day of the convention, a message from FDR was read out.
It announced that the President had no desire to continue in office or to be nominated for election. It produced a stunned and shocked silence.
Suddenly, the quiet was shattered by a voice thundering over the loudspeakers.
'We want Roosevelt!
We want Roosevelt!'
But did the President want a third term?
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Music credits
The theme music is Newsroom by Riot.
The other music featured in this episode was Run, Chance and Denouement, all by Kai Engel and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/
AH 12 Opening the iron curtain - the DDR's day of dissent
AH 11 Operation Unthinkable - Churchill's plan to attack Russia and start a Third World War
AH 10 Louis of England - history’s forgotten King of England
AH 09 Princess Mary Tudor's flight to freedom
AH 08 Cancelling Christmas and the Plum Pudding Riots
AH 07 The Prince of Poyais - settling in the country that never was
AH 06 A wonderful paradise on the Isthmus of Panama
AH 04 The British Hindenberg disaster and the demise of Imperial Airships
AH 03 Hitler’s dreams to unify his empire with a monstrous railway
AH 02 Draining the swamp -Garibaldi's plan to diver Rome's river
AH 01 Achtung! Achtung! Dystopian adventures with Nazi TV
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