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FDR: I would accept and serve, but I would not run, in the usual partisan, political sense.

On the recordJuly 10, 1944
I would accept and serve, but I would not run, in the usual partisan, political sense.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter Agreeing to Accept a Nomination for a Fourth Term

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