FDR: “It is our compelling duty to guard and enrich that legacy, to preserve…”

On the recordMay 9, 1940

It is our compelling duty to guard and enrich that legacy, to preserve it for a world which must be reborn from the ashes of the present disaster.

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Democratic · New York

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Radio Address Before the Eighth Pan American Scientific Congress. Washington, D.C.

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