FDR: “We ought to do as much as we feel we ought to do in the immediate…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1939

We ought to do as much as we feel we ought to do in the immediate future, and then wait until next year and see what we have to do then.

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Democratic · New York

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Press Conference

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