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[President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself from afar. In retrospect, some historians such as Samuel Eliot Morison, found fault.] Between 1941 and 1945 the United States paid heavily for the long-term results of Roosevelt's meddling, for which, ironically, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, ... The Oxford History of the American People.

Samuel Eliot Morison

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