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Nile Kinnick correspondence, June-August 1942
1942-07-20: Page 02
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action. Roosevelt has been an outstanding president, and will go down in history as a great man. But always, and without exception, his means to an end have been clouded with politics and public deception. It is impossible, I suppose, for a man in American public life to get great things done without compromising in some measure his most honest sense of things. However, F.D.R. has abused this privilege to the point, where we, the people, are justified in questioning his courage or his integrity. Congress doesn't command much of my respect anymore, but I am inclined to agree with Lippmann that
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action. Roosevelt has been an outstanding president, and will go down in history as a great man. But always, and without exception, his means to an end have been clouded with politics and public deception. It is impossible, I suppose, for a man in American public life to get great things done without compromising in some measure his most honest sense of things. However, F.D.R. has abused this privilege to the point, where we, the people, are justified in questioning his courage or his integrity. Congress doesn't command much of my respect anymore, but I am inclined to agree with Lippmann that
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