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2016 Postmortem

charlyvi

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3. FDR.....Now make me do it!

Reply to BootinUp (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 03:02 PM

Jun 2016

After his election in 1932, FDR met with Sidney Hillman and other labor leaders, many of them active Socialists with whom he had worked over the past decade or more. Hillman and his allies arrived with plans they wanted the new President to implement. Roosevelt told them: "I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it."

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