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Roosevelt's favorite food was fried cornmeal mush.
Roosevelt was related by either blood or marriage to eleven other Presidents: John Adams, John
Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison,
Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren and George Washington.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's favorite sport was swimming.
Half a century ago, the American destroyer USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a
live
torpedo at the battleship USS Iowa during a practice exercise on Nov.14, 1943. As if this
weren't
bad enough, the Iowa was carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of State
Cordell
Hull and all of the country's World War II military brass to 'the big three' conferences in
Cairo and
Teheran. Roosevelt was to meet with Stalin of the Soviet Union and Churchill of Great
Britain, and
had the W.D. Porter successfully launched torpedo struck the Iowa at the aiming point, the
last 50
years of world history might have been quite different. Fortunately, the W.D. Porter's
warning
allowed the Iowa to evade the speeding torpedo which exploded in the wake of the Iowa,
and
historic events carried on as we know them.