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FDR: I propose to use every means at my command to eliminate this deficit during the coming fiscal year.

On the recordApril 19, 1937
I propose to use every means at my command to eliminate this deficit during the coming fiscal year.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Appropriations for Work Relief for 1938

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