Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I ask that employers- all over the country—will so arrange the work day, that they and all their employees can go to the polls and that there will be no deductions in pay for reasonable time necessarily taken to vote.

Context

The President Expresses the Hope That All Those Eligible Will Vote on Election Day.

10/29/1942

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