Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I congratulate all of you ladies and gentlemen, all of you in the Congress, in the executive departments and all of you who come from private life, and I thank you for your splendid efforts in behalf of this sound, needed and patriotic legislation.

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Statement on Signing the Social Security Act

08/13/1935

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