William Rhodes Davis was likely the single biggest contributor to FDR's 1936 campaign. A year earlier Davis received a massive deal from Hitler to build an oil refinery in Hamburg.

William Rhodes Davis was likely the single biggest contributor to FDR's 1936 campaign. A year earlier Davis received a massive deal from Hitler to build an oil refinery in Hamburg. Applying a little Jane Mayer logic, that must mean the Nazis financed Roosevelt's reelection ;-) pic.twitter.com/hiNxfsu03n

— Phil Magness (@PhilWMagness) February 2, 2019