Transcription: One of the ways that Franklin was able to escape his mother's suffocating presence was by involving himself in various sedentary collections over time. And they represent Roosevelt's continuing ability to relax. He would bring up the stamp collection from Washington on those train trips on the weekends just so that whenever he had a couple free hours, he could sit there looking at the stamps, figuring out other ones he wanted to buy, which ones he might want to sell, which ones he could paste in the right place. place, and just somehow the cares of the world would drop away from him when those ...
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