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FDR: The improvement of their hard lot—for they exist in every community—is a definite obligation on all of our citizens.

On the recordOctober 18, 1934
The improvement of their hard lot—for they exist in every community—is a definite obligation on all of our citizens.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at the Dedication of Veterans' Hospital at Roanoke

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