I want to talk to you about rubber — about rubber and the war — about rubber and the American people.
When I say rubber I mean rubber. I don’t mean gasoline.
Gasoline is a serious problem only in certain sections of the country.
But rubber is a problem everywhere—from one end of the country to the other—in [...]
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Radio Address on the Scrap Rubber Campaign
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“The Arsenal of Democracy” – Fireside Chat, December 29, 1940
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Franklin D. Roosevelt – “The Arsenal of Democracy” – Fireside Chat, December 29, 1940
This is not a fireside chat on war. It is a talk on national security; because the nub of the whole purpose of your President is to keep you now, and your children later, and your grandchildren much later, out of a [...]
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at the Annual Dinner of White House Correspondents’ Association
Posted in Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tagged FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Politics, speech, WW II on September 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This dinner of the White House Correspondents’ Association is unique. It is the first one at which I have made a speech in all these eight years. It differs from the press conferences that you and I hold twice a week, for you cannot ask me any questions tonight; and everything that I have to [...]
