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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you. ✨ Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944, Red & Black Pub
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If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you. ✨ Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944, Red & Black Pub

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