FDR: “It is, as these Reports point out, an error to say that we have…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 1935

It is, as these Reports point out, an error to say that we have 'conquered Nature.'

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Message to Congress on the Use of Our National Resources

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FDR: “It is, as these Reports point out, an error to say that we have 'conquered Nature.'”