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FDR: Don't talk to me about manpower any more, because the manpower question has been solved by womanpower.

On the recordJune 10, 1943
Don't talk to me about manpower any more, because the manpower question has been solved by womanpower.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Excerpts from a Press Conference for Business Paper Editors

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