FDR: “We haven't been bombed in this country—rap on wood—and we haven't lost…”

On the recordNovember 5, 1944

We haven't been bombed in this country—rap on wood—and we haven't lost anything within our own boundaries during this war.

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Democratic · New York

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Remarks at Poughkeepsie, New York

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