"Arsenal of Democracy"
Radio address
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date: December 29, 1940
Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Arsenal of Democracy" Fireside Chat on national security, December 29, 1940. Reprinted in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 Volume: War—and Aid to Democracies. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941, 633–36, 640–43.
About the Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was born at Hyde Park, New York. Educated at Harvard, Roosevelt was elected to the New York Senate in 1910, and served as assistant secretary of the navy from 1913 to 1920. After losing a bid for vice president in 1920, Roosevelt contracted polio, leaving his legs permanently paralyzed. Returning to politics, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928, and he defeated Herbert Hoover for the presidency in 1932. Roosevelt was reelected in 1936, 1940, and 1944. The only...
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