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FDR: “You cannot get a sufficiently trained force of all kinds at the front, in the Navy yards and the arsenals…”

On the recordAugust 1, 1940
You cannot get a sufficiently trained force of all kinds at the front, in the Navy yards and the arsenals, transportation, supply system, and munitions output, you cannot get it by just passing an Act of Congress when war breaks out.
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FDR
Democratic · New York
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