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FDR: the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of…

On the recordJuly 3, 1941
the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at Hyde Park, New York.

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