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FDR: To warble easy platitudes that if we would only go back to ways that have failed, everything would be all right--is not…

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To warble easy platitudes that if we would only go back to ways that have failed, everything would be all right--is not courage.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt criticizes the idea of returning to failed policies as a false notion of courage.

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