Fireside Chat
04/27/1935
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We combat this evil enemy of disease at home just as unremittingly as we fight our evil enemies abroad.
We are a Nation of free people, and free people know how to go over the top- whether it's a Nazi wall, a Japanese island...
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 20 of the act of June 10, 1922.
I call upon the millions of victory gardeners who have done so much to swell the Nation's food supply in these war years...