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FDR: “This comes to me, as I know it will to the whole Nation, as a great shock for all of us had counted on your continuing…”

On the recordJune 1, 1941
This comes to me, as I know it will to the whole Nation, as a great shock for all of us had counted on your continuing your splendid service for many years to come.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Letters on the Retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

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