On April 12, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest running president in American history passed away. “I have a terrific headache.” Those were Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s final words. He died a few hours later of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 63 years old. FDR had presided over the Great Depression and most of World War II, and the stress had taken its toll o his health. Within hours of Roosevelt’s passing, Vice President Harry S. Truman was summoned to the White House where he took the oath of office.
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