these were all enabled by this overarching understanding of america as a nation for patchouli and progress. in 1936 the president said, do not look upon these united states as a finished product. we are still in the making. it is notable that prior to roosevelt it was always these united states after roosevelt the nation understood itself as the united states. added move from a motion -- notion of collective states to one of an exclamation. forestier the nation hierarchies in a citizenship work as much on the present as the future. the basic thoughts underlying his policies quote did not narrowed the nationalistic. >> insistence is the first consideration upon the interdependence of various elements as part of the united states. for roosevelt the entire nation was interconnected but was not therefore static infix. it was always in motion, always developing. at there for required constant attention and constant adjustment, the kind of attention that only a strong president seated in a strong government could give. importantly he understood the nation as already fundamentally united. the ver