Dec 9, 1938
There is not. I think you will find among the papers three diaries that started on the first of January in three different years, far apart.
FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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Dec 9, 1938
I realize that the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the New York State Library, Harvard University and the New York State Historical Society— and others— would probably be glad to have the whole collection intact.
Dec 8, 1938
Failure to take advantage of this cheap power will not only tend to cramp industrial development but will force the substitution of more costly power.
Dec 8, 1938
I hereby exempt the said Percy A. Baker from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending December 31, 1939.
Dec 8, 1938
In an age so dependent upon transportation and power, serious consequences will follow failure to anticipate future requirements.
Dec 8, 1938
Removal of the barriers to its full use for navigation will release millions of horsepower of cheap hydro-electric energy.
Dec 8, 1938
Any area which has grown in economic importance becomes a greater market for the products of other regions.
Dec 8, 1938
I have always appreciated the support of the National Seaway Council in my efforts to assure the early undertaking of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Project.
Dec 5, 1938
Certainly, as a general proposition national defense ought to be paid for on a pay as you go basis.
Dec 5, 1938
The question of employing on the Works Program, persons who are eligible under the Federal law for Social Security benefits, is one to which the Works Progress Administration has given consideration over a long period of time.
Dec 5, 1938
The Works Progress Administration feels that their first responsibility...must necessarily be toward those unemployed persons who cannot qualify for assistance under other Federal programs.
Dec 5, 1938
It involves not only the immediate problem of necessity, but a serious question of Federal policy.
Dec 5, 1938
I guess there is no further news on something on which there has never been any news.
Dec 4, 1938
It is only the possessors of 'headline' mentality that exaggerate or distort the true objectives of those in this Nation.
Dec 4, 1938
Because we live in an era of acceleration, we can no longer trust to the evolution of future decades to meet these new problems.
Dec 4, 1938
Law defines a relation not always between fixed points, but often between points of varying position.
Dec 4, 1938
The future, however, rests not on chance alone, not on mere conservatism, mere smugness, mere fatalism, but on the affirmative action which we take in America.
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