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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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Sep 27, 1935

I like to think that agricultural adjustment is an expression, in concrete form, of the human rights those farmer patriots sought to win.

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Sep 27, 1935

The burden of agricultural debt [...] has been decisively and definitely lessened.

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Sep 27, 1935

I applaud you; for this I extend the thanks of the Nation to the farmers of the Nation.

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Sep 26, 1935

The United States adheres to the Washington and London treaties.

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Sep 26, 1935

The American naval building policy is precisely and without change what it has been during the past two years and a half.

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Sep 26, 1935

This program carried out in accordance with acts of Congress will bring the United States Navy up to treaty strength by 1942.

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Sep 25, 1935

I earnestly hope that in each of our local communities men and women interested in the public welfare will give increasing thought and time to this great cooperative democratic method of providing recreation for all the people untrammeled…

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Sep 25, 1935

I rejoice in the growing public interest in this subject as evidenced by the fine facilities now being provided by the Government-Federal, state and local—for the enjoyment of the people.

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Sep 25, 1935

I believe the exchange of information and ideas among the leaders at the National Recreation Congress will result in carrying forward the recreation movement with the same high enthusiasm which has always characterized your group.

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Sep 24, 1935

Our hospitals, and particularly those administered by non-profit religious organizations, symbolize better than any other institution the depth as well as the dynamic quality of this national characteristic.

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Sep 24, 1935

This country at last is emerging from the great economic depression which has engulfed the entire Nation for six years and some parts of our population for a much longer period.

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Sep 24, 1935

I gladly embrace this opportunity to acknowledge the contributions you are making to human welfare.

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Sep 24, 1935

The hospitals are destined to grow in the important services they render communities.

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Sep 23, 1935

It is imperative that we should heed the needs of national defense.

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Sep 23, 1935

By the passage of the Vinson-Trammell Bill which authorizes the upbuilding of our Navy to the limits of existing treaties, our national legislation gave very definite expression of its purpose to increase the strength of the American Navy…

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Sep 22, 1935

We can solve our many problems, but no one man or single group can do it.

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Sep 22, 1935

I am particularly anxious that the new social security legislation just enacted...shall be carried out in keeping with the high purposes with which this law was enacted.

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Sep 20, 1935

My most cordial congratulations upon your election to the highest office within the gift of the Filipino people.

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Sep 16, 1935

The merit system has been and will continue to be extended during my Administration.

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Sep 13, 1935

This highway will last, not for generations, but for centuries to come.

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Sep 13, 1935

There is no reason why either Government or private banking industry should not consider trees just as much of an asset as houses or barns.

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Sep 13, 1935

We must start at the bottom and persuade the farmer that he must only take off his woodlot each year the amount of trees equivalent to the growth made in that woodlot that year.

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Sep 13, 1935

Well, there are five hundred and ten thousand young men today in C.C.C. camps in every State of the Union.

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