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On the recordDecember 27, 1933
I do not hesitate to say that if I had, for example, been engaged in a political campaign as a citizen of some other American Republic I might have been strongly tempted to play upon the fears of my compatriots.
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Democratic · New York

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Address before the Woodrow Wilson Foundation

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