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Barack Obama: “We can't just go back to the New Deal and try to grab all the same policies of the 1930s and think somehow they'd work…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2010
We can't just go back to the New Deal and try to grab all the same policies of the 1930s and think somehow they'd work in the 21st century.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference and a Question-and-Answer Session

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