President Roosevelt reminded the Daughters of the American Revolution yesterday that “all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” Addressing the D.A.R. Continental Congress, the President stressed the importance of keeping alive “the spirit of democracy, the spirit of opportunity, the kind of a spirit that has led us as a nation, not in a small group, but as a nation, to meet the very great problems of the past.”
He urged “inculcating in the boys and girls of this country today some of the underlying fundamentals, the reasons that impelled our revolutionary ancestors to throw off the Fascist yoke.”
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