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FDR: It doesn't amount to very much, this cost of planting trees, and yet the hillsides of West Virginia of our grandparents'…

On the recordOctober 28, 1944
It doesn't amount to very much, this cost of planting trees, and yet the hillsides of West Virginia of our grandparents' day were much more wonderful than they are now.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Remarks at Clarksburg, West Virginia

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