Transcription: In 1914 FDR was talked into taking a run at a New York Senate seat. What he took was a first-class whipping, the only real personal political defeat he ever suffered. He did not have time to sulk. The outbreak of war gave his position even more prominence and demanded even more of his considerable energy. Sometimes requisitions in triplicate and the small print of contracts got in the way of the war effort. Once he talked a contractor into building building a barrack to house three thousand men. There was no contract, just FDR's word and a handshake. A few weeks later when the contractor recei ...
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