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Answer: In that excerpt he means that he has an advantage because he swore and oath to defend the government when the south did not have one to destroy it.
It is "Franklin D. Roosevelt" who is is consistently rated as one of the best presidents in United States history, due to the fact that he rescued the United States from the Great Depression through the New Deal, and navigated the US successfully through World War II.
We used employes to create more offers for work but we cut benefits