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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1882 CE1945 CE · Washington, D.C.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945 as a Democrat. The only president elected to four terms, he introduced the New Deal programs in response to the Great Depression. He led the United States through most of World War II before dying in office in April 1945.

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Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is the area where the teacher Tara Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington in 1998, one of the larger Western vipassanā (insight meditation) communities, drawing on the Theravāda-derived insight tradition.

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