Yes the Eliot reference COULD be an addition BUT, if taken in context the speech progresses both prefectly and logically. he is most likely addressing the American Families who might be called to fight (including the line about his son Eliot)

He is telling the public he hates war and would "never send American boys to fight" He and Eleanor have a son too, and wants to stress to the Americans that he has a family in much the same predicament as theirs.

Perhaps maybe there was a possibilty people didn't have dirty minds as much in those days? And that the adminstration thought this speech was workable? I admit this sounds like a stretch, but the speech reads so definitively. But I think it would soon become an embarrassment to Roosevelt if it were actually said.

Anyway any historians that can answer this one? Is this a real speech? Or a bogus speech made by some comedian?

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