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Al Smith with Governor Roosevelt in Albany, New
York, Franklin D. Roosevelt took Smith's place in the New York Governor's
mansion. Personal enemies, they posed nevertheless for this 1930 publicity
shot. Despite their differences, both men represented a shift among national
politicians in their attitudes toward the masses. The politicization of
urban voters that Smith helped to light was formalized through FDR's new
Democratic coalition of the 1930s. Source: Matthew Josephson, Al
Smith: Hero of the Cities (1969).
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