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Uncommon hand-annotated typed and autograph manuscript draft by Franklin D. Roosevelt, unsigned, one page both sides, 8.25 x 11, no date but presumably circa 1928–1932, drafted when he was either running for governor of New York or while holding that office. The front is typed, with extensive corrections made in pencil by Roosevelt, beginning: "Government is theoretically the servant of the people. But the people are not the masters unless they know what their tax money is being spent for…Our state government has not lagged in its duty toward the individual man and woman as that duty was conceived by the individuals who originally created these United States."
He continues in pencil, in part: "We spend 300,000,000 a year of which over 1/3 goes straight back to local education and another 1/3 into public works—roads, hospitals, prisons and park systems. We can economize chiefly by cutting down on these, but such economy will only lower our state taxes a small amount." In very good to fine condition, with some creasing and minor edge chipping.
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