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FDR: “The dangerous folly of that point of view can be measured by the distance that separates our troops from their ultimate…”

On the recordJanuary 10, 1944
The dangerous folly of that point of view can be measured by the distance that separates our troops from their ultimate objectives in Berlin and Tokyo—and by the sum of all the perils that lie along the way.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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State of the Union Message to Congress

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