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* [[Irony]]: These words to a young [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]:
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** It was later discovered via analysis of the cancerous growth removed from his mouth several decades later that while he wasn't wrong to fear it was cancerous, it was on par with a low grade of skin cancer, thus easily removable without much fear it would spread.<ref>Much less was known about cancer and tumor in Cleveland's own day, so nigh all tumors were automatically removed on the assumption they'd become cancerous.</ref>
* [[Plausible Deniability]]: He secretly arranged for surgeons to remove a possibly cancerous growth inside his mouth, with the cover story in case anyone noticed his jaw looked funny later that he needed two teeth removed via emergency treatment.
* [[Principles Zealot]]: He was a firmly committed sound money man, meaning he absolutely refused to consider going off the gold standard, even when he could have gotten a huge popularity boost in some sectors for abandoning this principle.
* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: His views on women were that their place in life had been assigned by a higher power, as in, to be subordinate to men.
* [[Vindicated By History]]: To a mild degree. While a lot of his policy ideas were poorly received, especially in his second term, his refusal to abandon the gold standard proved to be wise in the long-run, as his successor adopted much the same platform, which led to economic recovery.
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