Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

They will decide, these people of ours, whether they will entrust the task of postwar reconversion to those who offered the veterans of the last war breadlines and apple-selling.

Context

Address Broadcast from San Diego to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

07/19/1944

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