| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47074 |
| QUOTATION: | It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945), U.S. president. William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940, p. 268, Harper & Row (1963).
The President lamented the difficulty of initiating effective reform programs. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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