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FDR: On that day we will joyfully turn our energies from the grim duties of war to the fruitful tasks of reconstruction.

On the recordJuly 9, 1943
On that day we will joyfully turn our energies from the grim duties of war to the fruitful tasks of reconstruction.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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