FDR: “I asked him to go down and talk to them confidentially, on behalf of…”

On the recordAugust 19, 1940

I asked him to go down and talk to them confidentially, on behalf of the United States.

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Democratic · New York

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Excerpts from the Press Conference in Hyde Park

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FDR: “I asked him to go down and talk to them confidentially, on behalf of the United States.”