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FDR: To this you must add many other firsts—the first corn raised in Kentucky, the first peach trees and apple trees planted…

On the recordNovember 15, 1934
To this you must add many other firsts—the first corn raised in Kentucky, the first peach trees and apple trees planted, the first wheat fields, the first grist mill and, perhaps most important of all, the first spinning wheel.
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Democratic · New York

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Address at George Rogers Clark Celebration, Harrodsburg, Kentucky

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