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The "review" refers twice to FDR's Inaugural Address of 1944. The speech referenced in 'The Second Bill of Rights' was not the inaugural; it was the State of the Union Address on Jan. 11, 1944. FDR's last Inaugural Address, very short and shorn of all grandiloquence, was delivered January 20, 1945. In a few short weeks, FDR would be dead--and so would be his Second Bill of Rights.
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The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever
CLAY7, August 17, 2006
The "review" refers twice to FDR's Inaugural Address of 1944. The speech referenced in 'The Second Bill of Rights' was not the inaugural; it was the State of the Union Address on Jan. 11, 1944. FDR's last Inaugural Address, very short and shorn of all grandiloquence, was delivered January 20, 1945. In a few short weeks, FDR would be dead--and so would be his Second Bill of Rights.(6 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)