| PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ON NEUTRALITY Good footage of the President Roosevelt addressing Congress on Neutrality. Washington, USA. | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6406 | |
| Catalog #: | 193231 | |
| Clip Number: | 193231-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 39/77 | |
| Timecode: | 01:00:11 - 01:01:47 | |
| Location: | Washington D.C. | |
| Year Shot: | 1939 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GOVERNMENT: Address to Congress LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR) POLITICS: Public Address (Speech) | |
| Description: | ROOSEVELT ON NEUTRALITY - WASHINGTON FDR wanted Congress to lift neutrality laws so that the US could supply Britain with weapons. Washington D.C. M/S of members of Congress walking from train at train station. Various shots, senators arriving in Washington. MS interior of packed Capitol building. TLS Roosevelt addressing Congress. "I have asked the Congress to reassemble in extraordinary session in order that it may consider and act on, the amendment of certain legislation, which in my best judgment so alters the historic foreign policy of the United States that it impairs the peaceful relations of the United States with foreign nations. For those who say that this program would involve a step toward war on our part reply that it offers far greater safeguards than we now possess or have ever possessed to protect American lives and property from danger. It is a positive program for giving safety. These perilous days demand co-operation between us without a trace of partisanship. Our acts must be guided by one single hard-headed thought: keeping America out of this war". | |
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