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Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large

And next to him, Sadie felt herself diminish.

Forty years after Deborah,

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He was going to tell her everything she needed to know, because she was strong and good.