Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

A generation trained in the art of camping will receive experience which I believe will give them exceptional equipment with which to cope with some of the most vexatious problems of life in the years that lie ahead.

Context

Radio Address on the Twenty-ninth Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America

02/07/1939

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