President Obama barely loses out to FDR in the new Vanity Fair/"60 Minutes" poll, which asks, among other things: which president would you want to add to Rushmore? John F. Kennedy was the clear winner with 29; Ronald Reagan came in second with 20 percent; Franklin Roosevelt was third with 18 percent; and Obama trailed him by just two percentage points, at 16 percent.

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