Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Our legislation was remedial, and as such, it would serve no purpose to make a doctrinaire effort to distinguish between that which was addressed to recovery and that which was addressed to reform.

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Reply to Letter from Roy W. Howard

09/05/1935

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