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With two presidents and prestige as NYC patricians, the Roosevelts seemingly had all the means to build a political dynasty in the same tier as the Kennedys or the Bushes. Did they try to create such a dynasty, and if so, why didn't they succeed on the level of the other two families mentioned?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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