Ronald Reagan actually said...

Only a healthy and growing economy can provide the more than 13 million jobs needed to achieve a progressively lower level of unemployment over the next 5 years.

Context

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

02/01/1983

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