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FDR: “We shall assume that responsibility cheerfully and in full faith that democracy can be made to function in the world of…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 1937
We shall assume that responsibility cheerfully and in full faith that democracy can be made to function in the world of today as effectively as it did in the simple world in which our Nation was born a century and a half ago.
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Democratic · New York

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Greeting to the Dinner of the Electoral College

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