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.
FDR: “A generation trained in the art of camping will receive experience which I believe will give them exceptional equipment…”
On the recordFebruary 7, 1939
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Radio Address on the Twenty-ninth Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America
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