FDR: “Let us resolve that we will be worthy of his great example.”

On the recordNovember 16, 1937

Let us resolve that we will be worthy of his great example.

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Democratic · New York

Source

Address at a Meeting of the Presidents of the Land Grant Colleges at Mt. Vernon, Va.

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