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FDR: “They will decide, these people of ours, whether they will entrust the task of postwar reconversion to those who offered…”

On the recordJuly 19, 1944
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.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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

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