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FDR: A free press is essential to us as a people and to the maintenance of our form of government.

On the recordNovember 1, 1938
A free press is essential to us as a people and to the maintenance of our form of government.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter of Congratulations to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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