How did FDR decide to run for a third term?

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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education

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Richard Moe, author of Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War, discusses who FDR consulted with whilst deciding to run or not to run for a third term. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/roosevelts-second-act-9780199981915

Richard Moe was president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1993-2010, chief of staff to Vice President Walter Mondale, and served on President Jimmy Carter's senior staff. His books include The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers and Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

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