The Nation: PLATFORM FOR 1944

At the drag-end of last week's White House press conference, Associated Pressman Douglas B. Cornell asked the question for which all the 80 assembled newsmen, and Franklin Roosevelt, had been waiting. The question: "Mr. President, after our last meeting with you, it appears that someone stayed behind and received word that you no longer liked the term 'New Deal.' Would you care to express any opinion to the rest of us?"

The President most certainly would. Herewith, from a White House transcript, the gist of Franklin Roosevelt's answer:

¶ls for Cat. The President had supposed somebody would ask that, he said. It all...

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