MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show December 17, 2020
At war. At that point we were years into what had been that long and excruciating global ordeal. And at the beginning of 1945, in january of 1945, the United States of america also needed to hold a president ial inauguration. President Franklin Roosevelt had been reelected to a fourth term. No president before him had ever had three inaugurations before, let alone four. The rules, of course, would be changed after fdr so no president could ever have more than two terms again. But when fdr went up for reelection in the election of 1944, november 1944, he was reelected in a landslide. Yes, he wa...