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FDR Music

Published April 21, 2001 at 12:00 AM EDT

Scott talks with history professor and FDR biographer Patrick Maney about the enormous number of songs that were written for Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt during their time in the White House. (12:00) For more on this story, visit our FDR music feature page.

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