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Barack Obama: We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression.

On the recordFebruary 9, 2009
We have inherited an economic crisis as deep and as dire as any since the Great Depression.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama describes the severity of the economic crisis facing the country.

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