My Fellow Americans: Once upon a time, a few years ago, there was a city in our Middle West which was threatened by a destructive flood in the great river. The waters had risen to the top of the banks. Every man, woman and child in that city was called upon to fill sand bags [...]
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Fireside Chat 26: On the Armistice in Italy (September 08, 1943)
Posted in Franklin Roosevelt Speeches, tagged Armistice in Italy, FDR, History, Politics, Roosevelt, September 08 1943, WW II on December 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Radio Address to the French People on the North African Invasion – November 7, 1942
Posted in Franklin Roosevelt Speeches, tagged FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, North Africa Invasion, November 7 1942, Radio Address to the French People on the North African, WW II on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Radio Address to the French People on the North African Invasion November 7, 1942 My friends, who suffer day and night, under the crushing yoke of the Nazis, I speak to you as one who was with your Army and Navy in France in 1918. I have held all my life the [...]
FDR: Radio Address on the Scrap Rubber Campaign
Posted in Franklin Roosevelt Speeches, tagged FDR, USA, WW II on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once the rubber is in, we will know what our supplies of used rubber are and we will make our plans accordingly. One thing you can be sure of—we are going to see to it that there is enough rubber to build the planes to bomb Tokyo and Berlin—enough rubber to build the tanks to crush the enemy wherever we may find him—enough rubber to win this war.
