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FDR: I should like to see every boy and girl in this school taken down to see one of the courts in Poughkeepsie.

On the recordNovember 2, 1941
I should like to see every boy and girl in this school taken down to see one of the courts in Poughkeepsie.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Remarks to a Conference of Dutchess County School Teachers, Hyde Park, New York

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