Excerpts from the Press Conference
04/26/1937
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We want them to feel that they are getting work, even though the amount they get in pay for their work is somewhat below what they would be ...
Politics, so far as we are concerned, is out.
The objective is to put three and a half million men to work during the coming fiscal year.
We want to get rid of the dole.