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FDR: I hope that calm counsel and constructive leadership will provide the steadying influence and the time necessary for the…

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I hope that calm counsel and constructive leadership will provide the steadying influence and the time necessary for the coming of new and more practical forms of representative government throughout the world wherein privilege and power will occupy a lesser place and world welfare a greater.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt calls for calm and constructive leadership to foster better governance globally.

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