FDR: “The spirit that animated those voyagers four centuries ago is not…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1936

The spirit that animated those voyagers four centuries ago is not alien to these Western plains and mountains.

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Democratic · New York

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Address at Denver, Colorado

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FDR: “The spirit that animated those voyagers four centuries ago is not alien to these Western plains and mountains.”