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FDR: The importance of what we are doing this year, in our own generation, to keep alive the spirit of American democracy…

On the recordApril 20, 1938
The importance of what we are doing this year, in our own generation, to keep alive the spirit of American democracy, the spirit of opportunity, we cannot over-estimate.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Remarks to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Washington, D.C.

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