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Ronald Reagan: “Well, the classes of 1932 faced a world in the very bottom of the Great Depression.”

On the recordMay 20, 1983
Well, the classes of 1932 faced a world in the very bottom of the Great Depression.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Address at Commencement Exercises at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey

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