Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

The earth has been so shrunk by the airplane and the radio that Europe is closer to America today than was one side of these mountains to the other side when the pioneers toiled through the primeval forest.

Context

Address at Dedication of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

09/01/1940

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