FDR: “The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen…”

On the recordMay 25, 1940

The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human suffering.

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Democratic · New York

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FDR: “The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and…”