this was a president who didn't deal but the question of how he could succeed where wilsonville was seldom far from his mind. we think of wilson and roosevelt as being in separate historical eras. each has his own world war and yet when you think about it, the wilson administration and to just 12 years before the roosevelt administration began. they're about as far apart as tricia b busch and donald trump on the timescale. in the presence and experience of world war i and our efforts to stay out of it work on many minds but principally on the president. i think i can handle stalin better roosevelt wrote to churchill early on before we are formally or. properly handle the dictator may be the key to victory in the postwar world. it wasn't a sure thing. as a proposition to be tested. iran was to be the first test. similarly, the current chronology has to bend. for to find meaning in the place he made in this life for his new love lucy. the drum inherited in the fact that it was lucy who is with him when he had a hemorrhage on the brain and as eleanor discovered, only that me to her better and