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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue Apr 30, 2019, 04:46 PM Apr 2019

FDR makes first Presidential speech ever on TV, today 1939, opening New York World's Fair

FDR makes first Presidential speech ever on TV, today 1939, opening New York World’s Fair on 150th anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration:



"We offer up a prayer that on the continent of Europe, upon which the American hemisphere was principally colonized, there will be a breakdown of the barriers of intercourse between nations."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 🇺🇸 World's Fair speech (1939)
#POTUS



"Germany, if you can find Alf Landon's diaries, I'm sure you will be rewarded by all these people here" -- FDR if he had been born Franklin Delano Trump

#ImpeachTrump









There's no way I could leave this one out. This scene still gives me the creeps.



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