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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death on April 12, 1945, was a personal loss for many, and statesmen and ordinary citizens alike mourned his passing. President Harry S. Truman, Roosevelt’s successor, said, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.” Studs Terkel, a writer, recalled, “I’m walking south on Michigan Boulevard and I can’t stop crying. Everybody’s crying.” The nation buried Roosevelt in the Springwood rose garden on April 15, 1945, and Winston Churchill and Eleanor Roosevelt laid a wreath on FDR’s grave on March 12, 1946.
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