recounts franklin delano roosevelt s last presidential campaign in 1944 to secure his fourth term. mr. weintraub examines the key events that marked his wartime reelection, in which he defeated republican house dewey. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] my book is called, as you heard, final victory. final victory suggests that there were nothing but victory is in his life. actually, that wasn t the case. he did have to terms as a state senator from new york state and he became assistant secretary of the navy in a little more one. he then was chosen to be the vice presidential candidate on the democratic ticket in 1920 and the democrats were sure to lose and they lost. he lost with them, but he thought that this would only energize his career. he had a national visibility. he was going to go on to do other things. but that was 1920. in 1921, he severed polio, he was paralyzed, and the period that we are dealing with now is 23 years until that period of mobility on his part