Annual Message to Congress
01/02/1934
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It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.
This is our chance to serve those who serve us.
Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it- and sacrifice for it.
I do know it will come, and I do know that tonight there are over seven and a half million Americans overseas or fightin...