FDR: “Those same people, some of them professional farmers, they have been…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1943

Those same people, some of them professional farmers, they have been getting subsidies ever since 1933, and even before that.

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FDR: “Those same people, some of them professional farmers, they have been getting subsidies ever since 1933, and even before…”