Remarks at Poughkeepsie, New York
11/05/1944
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We need more camping areas, more picnic grounds within easy reach of centers of concentrated population, more wayside rests.
There is need for more of these local areas, and for careful planning of recreational facilities in those already established.
I can, therefore, from personal observation testify to the earnestness of purpose of the many outstanding statesmen of the Americas gathered...
Each State should now be preparing to accept such responsibility and to carry on the State park development for the benefit of its citizens.