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FDR: Let me warn you now, as I warned you two years ago in my address at Syracuse, against the type of smooth evasion which…

On the recordNovember 3, 1938
Let me warn you now, as I warned you two years ago in my address at Syracuse, against the type of smooth evasion which says: 'Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes.'
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Democratic · New York

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Radio Address on the Election of Liberals

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