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Quotation from Second Inaugural Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address, Opening sentence (Project Gutenberg #4938)

Roosevelt recalls the anxious inauguration of March 1933 as the starting point for measuring his first term.

Citation: "four years ago we met to inaugurate a President, the Republic, single-minded in anxiety, stood in spirit here" — Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, Opening sentence (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id fdr-second-inaugural-address-q2)

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