FDR: “It is the same thought, to put it into naval terms, as to say that the…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1934

It is the same thought, to put it into naval terms, as to say that the speed of a fleet is the speed of the slowest vessel in the fleet.

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Democratic · New York

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Address at the Dedication of Veterans' Hospital at Roanoke

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