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FDR: There is nothing in our present emergency to justify a retreat from any of our social objectives.

On the recordSeptember 10, 1940
There is nothing in our present emergency to justify a retreat from any of our social objectives.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at Teamsters Union Convention, Washington, D.C.

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