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FDR's Funeral Train

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Some things about politics never change, but following Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death in 1945, nearly every major political figure in America embarked on a bizarre, one-of-a-kind trip on a funeral train carrying his body to Hyde Park with Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, every single Supreme Court justice, and, unbelievably enough, a Soviet spy all on board.

Robert Klara has put together a thrilling piece of history that looks at the intense political and social machinations taking place as the nation mourned its president: Eleanor Roosevelt coped with fresh knowledge of her husband's extramarital affairs, Truman worked on policy for WWII, and a massive security effort struggled to keep the high-profile passengers out of harm’s way.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-18/this-weeks-hot-reads-26/

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