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(Thursday, March 1, 1945, 12:08 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — In what turned out to be his final public speech, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid responsibility for future world peace squarely in the lap of the Senate today in a historic appeal to a special joint session of Congress for full assumption by the United States of its responsibilities in “keeping the peace.”

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Roosevelt delivered the speech while seated, publicly acknowledging his disability for the first and only time: “I hope that you will pardon me for this unusual posture of sitting down…but I know that you will realize that it makes it a lot easier for me not to have to carry about ten pounds of steel around the bottom of my legs.”

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