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Gabriel Over the White House | movie | 1933 | Official Trailer
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1/29/2024
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptib | dG1fUzZjQ3NkLU9oVTQ
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Gentlemen, I am here as a representative of the American people, and there are of darkest
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despair. A plant cannot be made to grow by watering the top alone and letting the roots
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go dry. The people of this country are the roots of the nation and the sturdy trunk and
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the branches too. You have spent $4 billion only to aggravate adversity. I ask for $4
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billion to restore buying power, stimulate purchases, restore prosperity. You have wasted
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precious days and weeks and years in futile discussion. We need action, immediate and
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effective action. Mr. President, there is a movement in Congress for your impeachment.
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Hardly time for making any requests, however small. Very well. I shall withdraw that request,
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but I would like to substitute another. I ask you gentlemen to declare a state of national
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emergency and to adjourn this Congress until normal conditions are restored. During the
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period of that adjournment, I shall assume full responsibility for the government. Mr.
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President, this is dictatorship. Senator Langham, words do not frighten me. But the United States
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of America is a democracy. We are not yet ready to give up the government of our time.
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Order, please, order! You have given it up. You've turned your backs. You've closed your
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ears to the appeals of the people. You've been treacherous to the concepts of democracy
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upon which this government was founded. I believe in democracy as Washington, Jefferson,
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and Lincoln believed in democracy. And if what I plan to do in the name of the people
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makes me a dictator, then it is a dictatorship based on Jefferson's definition of democracy,
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a government for the greatest good of the greatest number. This Congress refuses to
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adjourn. I think, gentlemen, you forget that I am still the President of these United States.
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And as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, it is within the rights of the President
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to declare the country under martial law.
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[applause]
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[silence]
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