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Richard Nixon: For the first time in 16 years, unemployment in peacetime is below 5 percent.

On the recordSeptember 8, 1973
For the first time in 16 years, unemployment in peacetime is below 5 percent.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Radio Address About a Special Message to the Congress on National Legislative Goals.

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