Excerpts from the Press Conference
11/13/1944
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The morale of a people is an essential supplement to their guns and planes.
There is nothing in our present emergency to justify a retreat from any of our social objectives.
I stand, with my party, and outside of my party as President of all the people.
America is rising to meet the evergrowing need for an adequate, physical armed defense of the United States.