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FDR: This airport and many others which we hope will follow, will draw free men freely to use a peacetime implement of…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1940
This airport and many others which we hope will follow, will draw free men freely to use a peacetime implement of commerce.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at New Washington National Airport

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