Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I do not think that anyone would seriously argue that the freedom of the press to criticize the Administration in office has, in any manner, been curtailed since the spring of 1933.

Context

Letter of Congratulations to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

11/01/1938

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