56. The Role of Voluntarism & Volunteerism in America with Elisabeth Clemens
Volunteer Nation
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The Importance of Local Production
The Red Cross, as I said, is really strongly identified with Hoover. So when the Roosevelt administration comes in, there's a certain amount of animus there. But one of the things that Red Cross does during this period is they have production rooms where they make bandages and knit sweaters. The representatives of the textile and knitting industry come to Roosevelt and just say, you got to stop sending yarn to these production rooms. We're suffering shortages of yarn. And besides, they make really lousy sweaters, right? People knitting and the sweaters don't fit in the socks or lumpy. Obama: "There's so many that are total faves"
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