Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I consider it one of the happiest events in my office as President of the United States, to have signed in the name of the United States the instrument which will give national freedom to the Philippine people.

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Address on Receiving an Honorary Degree from Notre Dame University

12/08/1935

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