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On the recordDecember 27, 1933
I did not make this suggestion until I felt assured, after a hardheaded practical survey, that the temper of the overwhelming majority of all men and women in my own country agrees with the fundamental objective I have set forth.
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Democratic · New York

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Address before the Woodrow Wilson Foundation

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