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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Crowd of 50,000 Hears President. National Topics. General O to S. Box 42.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[National Topics]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Relief]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Great Depression]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[New Deal]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[President]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[United States -- History -- General O-S]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Crowd of 50,000 Hears President.; Text of Roosevelt Address. The Roosevelt Memorial day address follows: My friends: On these hills of Gettysburg two brave armies of Americans once met in combat. Not far from here, in a valley likewise consecrated to American valor, a ragged continental army survived a bitter winter to keep alive the expiring hope of a new nation; and near to this battlefield and that valley stands that invincible city where the Declaration of Independence was born and the Constitution of the United States was written by the fathers. Surely, all this is holy ground. Recalls Washington's Words. It was in Philadelphia, too, that Washington spoke his solemn, tender, wise words of farewell‚Äîa farewell not alone' to his generation, but to the generation of those who laid down their lives here and to our generation and to the America of tomorrow. Perhaps if our fathers and grandfathers had truly heeded those words we should have had no family quarrel, no battle of Gettysburg, no Appo- As a Virginian, President Washington had a natural pride in Virginia, but as an American, in his stately phrase "the name of American, which belongs to you, in your national ca- j pacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local dis-]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[crimination." Three Historic Tours. Recognizing the strength of local and state and section prejudices and how strong they might grow to be, and how they might take from the national government some of the loyalty the citizens owed to it, he made three historic tours during his presi- One was through New England in 1789, another through the northern states in 1790, and still another through the southern states in 1791. He did this, as he said, "to become better acquainted with their principal characters and internal circumstances, as well as to be more accessible to numbers of well informed persons who might give him useful advices on political subjects." But he did more to stimulate patriotism than merely to travel and mingle with the people. He knew that nations grow as their commerce and manufactures and agriculture grow, and that all of these grow as the means of transportation are extended. Knit All Sections Together. He sought to knit the sections together by their common interest in these great enterprises: and he projected highways and canals as aids not to sectional but to national development. But the nation expanded geographically after the death of Washington for more rapidly than the nation's means of intercommunication. Th¬ª]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Spokesman Review]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Northwest Digital Heritage]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[5/31/34]]></dcterms:date>
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