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FDR: I honestly think that we all ought to be a bit careful and tend toward understatement rather than overstatement on all…

On the recordNovember 5, 1942
I honestly think that we all ought to be a bit careful and tend toward understatement rather than overstatement on all operations of that kind.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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