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TIL that, after the 1940 election, unsuccessful challenger Wendell Willkie gave FDR his full support, making wartime foreign trips as FDR's envoy & even discussing the possibility of forming a liberal third-party together after the war (which, unfortunately, neither would live to see the end of).

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