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FDR: We seek it through tested liberal traditions, through processes which retain all of the deep essentials of that…

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We seek it through tested liberal traditions, through processes which retain all of the deep essentials of that republican form of representative government first given to a troubled world by the United States.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt describes the pursuit of change through established American democratic traditions.

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