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FDR: “I believe it to be highly important that a small committee of distinguished and disinterested citizens be appointed for…”

On the recordAugust 5, 1942
I believe it to be highly important that a small committee of distinguished and disinterested citizens be appointed for the purpose of making a quick but adequate survey of the entire rubber question.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letter to Bernard M. Baruch Requesting a Survey of the Rubber Situation

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