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FDR: “I stand squarely behind the efforts of the Department of Justice to bring to book every law breaker, big and little.”

On the recordMay 17, 1934
I stand squarely behind the efforts of the Department of Justice to bring to book every law breaker, big and little.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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