Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I am convinced that nationwide minimum standards are necessary and that a way should be found promptly to crystallize in legal safeguards public opinion in behalf of the elimination of child labor.

Context

Letter to Governors Urging Ratification of the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution

01/06/1937

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