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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 23, 1935

The spirit of Christmas knows no race, no creed, no clime, no limitation of time or space.

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Dec 20, 1935

It is ordered that Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, as amended by Executive Order No. 7048, of May 20, 1935, temporarily withdrawing all public lands in certain States for classification and other purposes, be, and it is…

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Dec 19, 1935

The final objective is restoration and conservation of national land, forests, and wildlife resources.

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Dec 13, 1935

As an adopted citizen of the South I have great faith in Tuskegee.

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Dec 13, 1935

The success of Southern agriculture is dependent in great part upon the industry, intelligence and thrift of the Negro farmers.

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Dec 11, 1935

Employees in the Federal service in the District of Columbia, and in the field service of the executive departments, independent establishments and other agencies of the Government, except those who may for special public reasons be…

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Dec 10, 1935

I think we are going to get somewhere; and I hope very much that this conference you are having will bring, as far as possible, unanimity of thought and action in all the States looking toward a more permanent national policy.

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Dec 10, 1935

It is hard to bring back the facilities in education as quickly or as easily as it is to raise farm prices or open banks.

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Dec 10, 1935

I feel very bad about education in one way because the depression hit education in the United States more than anything else.

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Dec 9, 1935

This refuge shall be known as the Waubay Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

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Dec 8, 1935

We three Nations, the principal naval powers, have nothing to fear from one another.

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Dec 8, 1935

We want all of them to grow in the same proportion, with that proportion based, of course, on the needs of the whole country.

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Dec 8, 1935

I consider it one of the happiest events in my office as President of the United States, to have signed in the name of the United States the instrument which will give national freedom to the Philippine people.

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Dec 8, 1935

We have no intention of getting mixed up in the wars of the rest of the world.

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Dec 8, 1935

We have shown over that period of years that we can round out cattle and hogs through unified national effort.

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Dec 6, 1935

My whole objective was to make the country as conscious about Polio as it is about T.B.

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Dec 4, 1935

I mean it in the purely physical sense because people who are blind certainly have a splendid vision in every other way.

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Dec 4, 1935

It is a privilege to have a part in aiding the betterment of conditions for those who have been handicapped by lack of vision.

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Dec 4, 1935

You have my sincere congratulations and a pledge to do all I can in furthering this great philanthropy.

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Dec 3, 1935

Executive Order No. 5958, of December 8, 1932, withdrawing public lands in T. 17 S., R. 31 E. of the Gila and Salt River meridian, Arizona, pending a resurvey, is hereby revoked.

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Dec 2, 1935

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of August 12, 1935 (Public, No. 260, 74th Cong.), it is hereby ordered that the records, papers, and property of the Railroad Retirement Board be transferred.

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Nov 25, 1935

Executive Order No. 6910, of November 26, 1934, as amended, withdrawing public lands in certain States, is hereby further amended.

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Nov 22, 1935

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to prescribe the manner in which requests for action under the said section 22 shall be submitted by interested parties.

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Nov 22, 1935

The Secretary of Agriculture, proceeding upon his own motion or upon a request from any interested party, is hereby empowered to make such preliminary investigations with reference to matters within the scope of section 22 of the said act…

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