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Quotation from Fourth Inaugural Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Vice President, my friends, you will understand and, I believe, agree with my wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words brief”
Fourth Inaugural Address, Inaugural address, opening sentence (Project Gutenberg #4938)
Roosevelt asks the small White House crowd to accept a brief and simple wartime ceremony.
Citation: "Vice President, my friends, you will understand and, I believe, agree with my wish that the form of this inauguration be simple and its words brief" — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Inaugural address, opening sentence (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id fdr-fourth-inaugural-address-q2)
