The President refused to confirm rumours that he had revised the text of his speech at the last minute as the result of charges that Supreme Court Justice Black was a member of the Kiu Klux Klan He pleaded with the people of the United States that they guarantee the effectiveness of the constitution by living by it as a whole, that they have faith in the Constitution's capacity to solve the problem of Democracy, that they give faith to the Constitution itself instead of to misinterpreters that exalt the simplicity of it's purposes instead of a century of complicated legalism; that majorities and minorities subordinate their intolerance and power to the common good.
He said thet the United States faces confidently "a known measurable danger of becoming involved in war" but takes foresight, intelligence and patience to "meet the subtle attack which spreading dictatorship makes upon the morals of a democracy."
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