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FDR: It required great patience between 1783 and 1788 to bring home the realization that thirteen separate colonies, become…

On the recordSeptember 16, 1938
It required great patience between 1783 and 1788 to bring home the realization that thirteen separate colonies, become thirteen separate states, could not survive as thirteen separate nationalities.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Radio Address on Constitution Day

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