Echoing last year's battle over aid to the flood-ravaged Midwest, the White House is criticizing House Republicans for politicizing important issues like disaster relief and military support.

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He lost, and the proposal was not an issue again in presidential elections until 1932, when another Roosevelt, Franklin, campaigned for the White House in a Depression-ravaged nation where the plight of the elderly had become desperate.

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"The bars just don't pay, " French says, watching with disgust as a tourist bus navigates the rutted street in front of his house in the flood-ravaged Ninth Ward.

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"With our convictions and a little backbone we will take back the White House in November, " said Edwards, ending his second campaign in a hurricane-ravaged section of New Orleans where he began it more than a year ago.

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