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aug 2, 1939 - "I made a statement which was promptly twisted out of all semblance to what I said... They promptly tried to misquote... that we would promptly send two or three million American boys to the line, which was, of course, merely a political effort on their part to misrepresent." -Franklin D. Roosevelt Remarks to Representatives of National Civic Organizations. Washington, D. C. August 02, 1940

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"I made a statement which was promptly twisted out of all semblance to what I said...
They promptly tried to misquote... that we would promptly send two or three million American boys to the line, which was, of course, merely a political effort on their part to misrepresent."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remarks to Representatives of National Civic Organizations. Washington, D. C.
August 02, 1940

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