Document Analysis: George Dobbins

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I do think that Roosevelt is the biggest-hearted man we ever had in the White House ... It's the first time in my recollection that a President ever got up and said, "I'm interested in and aim to do somethin' for the workin' man." Just knowin' that for once there was a man to stand up and speak for him, a man that could make what he felt so plain nobody could doubt he meant it, has made a lot of us feel a lot better even when there wasn't much to eat in our homes.

Roosevelt picked us up out of the mud and stood us up ... Roosevelt is the only President we ever had that thought the Constitution belonged to the pore man too ... Yessir, it took Roosevelt to read in the Constitution and find out them folks way back yonder that made it was talkin' about the pore man right along with the rich one. I am a Roosevelt man.

Interview with George Dobbin, a 67-year-old cotton mill worker. From "These Are Our Lives" (1939), a book of interviews published by the Federal Writers' Project.

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