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FDR: “I cannot wait until the last moment to take action to see that the supplies to our fighting men are not interrupted.”

On the recordDecember 26, 1943
I cannot wait until the last moment to take action to see that the supplies to our fighting men are not interrupted.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Statement on the Executive Order on Possession and Operation of the Railroads

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