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On the recordApril 24, 1935
Our generation will not soon forget, as the learned the world over will long remember, his extraordinary achievements as judge, as historian, and as philosopher of the law.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on the Bequest to the Nation by Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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