Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

During the depression we have substantially increased the facilities and developed the resources of our country for the common welfare through public works and work relief programs.

Context

Message to Congress Transmitting the National Resource Committee's Six-Year Program of Public Works

02/02/1937

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