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FDR: The inherent right to work is one of the elemental privileges of a free people.

On the recordNovember 13, 1937
The inherent right to work is one of the elemental privileges of a free people.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Radio Address on Cooperation with the Unemployment Census

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