Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/26/1940
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That really is the rottenest thing that has been said in public life in my generation.
I regard as the most untruthful, as the most dastardly, unpatriotic thing that has ever been said.
Any person who was on October 16, 1936, an employee of the Rural Electrification Administration may now acquire such status.
Well, it's to give everybody who wants to do something toward defense a method of doing his or her part, no matter where they live.