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FDR grandson says that Obama girls are different

He was raised as an American aristocrat. As the eldest grandson of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt (niece of Teddy and 5th cousin to her husband) he’s twice a Roosevelt, a name which means wealth and status. With his sister, he moved into the White House at age three and became a child celebrity.

Now age 79 and bearing a remarkable resemblance to his presidential granddad, Curtis Roosevelt was at the Boston Athenaeum recently promoting the paperback release of his childhood memoir "Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor." During his visit he shared some thoughts about Barack Obama and his family.

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