Shall We Dance?
For years, presidents and entertainers have been strange bedfellows, particularly on the campaign trail. So who's using whom, exactly?

By Alan Schroeder

On November 4, 1944, three days before his election to an unprecedented fourth term in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt came to Fenway Park for the last big campaign rally of his career.

A day earlier, sound trucks had rolled through Boston’s streets, beckoning everyone within earshot to come to the ballpark to “hear our great leader.” Now, forty thousand Roosevelt fans jammed into Fenway, filling every seat and spilling out into the aisles. Fifteen thousand more listened to loudspeakers set up outside the gates.

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