10/13/1936
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"I think it should be made clear that there are two primary reasons for doing it at this time."
"I think it is a completely minor detail."
"I think it probably goes back to the days of—when did we first get California? 1847, wasn't it?"
"I do hereby proclaim that a state of war unhappily exists between Germany, on the one hand, and Belgium, Luxemburg, and the Netherlands, on the other hand."