Reportedly, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a statement in 1943 that indicated that the Axis Powers would need to agree to an unconditional surrender if WW 2 was ever to end. This disturbed many politicians and military commanders. They believed that when FDR used those terms, it would only lead to the Axis Powers to fight longer and harder in order to avoid an unconditional surrender.Roosevelt reportedly stated that he made the statement after thinking about the "unconditional surrender" edict made by Union General in Chief US Grant.
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Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses Grant and Franklin Pierce all became US Presidents and Jefferson Davis became the President of the Confederate States of America.
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FDR was a distant cousin of Taylor, Grant and Theodore Roosevelt.
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There are 7 presidents that built their reputations in the military/army: George Washington, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe,and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Washington ($1), Jefferson ($2), Lincoln ($5), Jackson ($20) and Grant ( $50) are the presidents who are shown on current US bills.
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Six presidents are buried in New York state. They are Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Ulysses Grant, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt. James Monroe died in New York and was buried there in the family vault of his son-in-law for about 20 years before his body was shipped back to Virginia.
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31st - Anna, Elliot, Franklin Jr., John and James. 18th - Jesse Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., Nellie Grant, Frederick Grant.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by blood or marriage, was related to 11 other former presidents: John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft and, of course, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR's fifth cousin.
FDR was a distant cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt, and he was married to Eleanor Roosevelt (also his distant cousin), who was Teddy's niece.
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Pierce received a salary of $25,000 per year, as did all presidents up to 1873 (Grant's second term) when the salary was raised to $50,000.