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First U.S. president to address in foreign tongue
Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the first U S president to broadcast in a foreign language when on November 7 1942 he spoke to the French from Washington D C in French as American forces invaded French possessions in Africa Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who did not use the pronoun I in his inaugural address.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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