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Wounded Bear

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3. FDR - "They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred."
Mon Jul 8, 2024, 08:13 PM
Jul 2024
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred.

I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

The American people know from a four-year record that today there is only one entrance to the White House--by the front door. Since March 4, 1933, there has been only one pass-key to the White House. I have carried that key in my pocket. It is there tonight. So long as I am President, it will remain in my pocket....


Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936). In Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt (New York: Random House, 1938), 5:566-73.

https://web.mit.edu/21h.102/www/Primary%20source%20collections/The%20New%20Deal/FDR,%20Campaign%20speech%201936.htm

Joe could give this speech and not be far off from the truth of it.



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