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Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919, after being severly weakened by malaria, which he had contracted on one of his famous trips in the jungles of South America. He was 61 when he died.

How long would he have lived if he had not contracted malaria? What effects could this have had on the politics of the United States? Could this have helped FDR's fledgling political career?
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