Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Their opportunity for constructive service is as great today as when Grover Cleveland named the first Interstate Commerce Commission in the spring of 1887.

Context

Letter on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Interstate Commerce Commission

02/28/1937

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