Statement on Columbus Day
10/11/1942
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Today is the birthday of the new world.
The Nation will long remember Wendell Willkie as a forthright American.
This courage—which was his dominating trait—prompted him more than once to stand alone and to challenge the wisdom of counsels taken by powe...
In this hour of grave crisis the country loses a great citizen through his untimely passing.