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FDR: “I think it is better we talked about that for ten or fifteen years than if we had belonged to the kind of society where…”

On the recordNovember 2, 1941
I think it is better we talked about that for ten or fifteen years than if we had belonged to the kind of society where somebody way up on top- some dictator—had said to the Town of Hyde Park fifteen years ago, 'You have got to have one.'
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Remarks to a Conference of Dutchess County School Teachers, Hyde Park, New York

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