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Ronald Reagan: “The economic expansion is now in its fifth year, and the growth rate of the gross national product, adjusted for…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1987
The economic expansion is now in its fifth year, and the growth rate of the gross national product, adjusted for inflation, should accelerate to 3.2 percent in 1987.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the Annual Economic Report of the President

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