Remarks of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President of The United States of America
From the Rear Platform of his Special Train
Toccoa, Georgia
March 23, 1938, 10:05 am
The Governor handed me the microphone and I told him that I did not think I needed it.
I am nearly six months late. I intended to come down back to Georgia
last autumn, but I had a bad tooth, which is a very human feeling, so I
could not get down last November, but here I am again.
I am going to have a ten days' holiday. I am going to spend most of the
time sleeping, (laughter) because, as you probably know, with
forty-eight states to think about up there in Washington, I ought to
have forty-eight hours in every day. Somehow it does not work out that
way and even though I do stay up until midnight or one o'clock in the
morning pretty nearly every night in Washington, I manage to get by
with it if occasionally I can come down to Georgia.
So, it is good to see you all at the beginning of this holiday I am
getting. I expect also while I am down here to look into some of the
problems of this State; in a holiday spirit to talk to people, to talk
to my neighbors about the problems of agriculture, to talk to people
who are engaged in running stores, drugstores and general stores and
factories, about the problems of this part of the country.
I do not have to tell you that I am very deeply interested in the State
of Georgia. You go hand in hand with the rest of the Nation. If
anything happens to you, it hurts the rest of the Nation, and if
anything happens to the rest of the Nation it hurts you. So, we are all
in the same boat; we are all plowing the same furrow.
It is good to be back and I hope to see you again very soon because
this year I hope there won't be another tooth and I hope to be able to
come back in the fall.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source:
About North Georgia. Voices From the Past.
