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FDR: This Nation cannot, must not, and will not shirk that responsibility.

On the recordOctober 20, 1944
This Nation cannot, must not, and will not shirk that responsibility.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Radio Address at a Dinner of the Foreign Policy Association. New York, N. Y.

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