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FDR: This plan for economic security is at once a measure of prevention and a method of alleviation.

On the recordJanuary 16, 1935
This plan for economic security is at once a measure of prevention and a method of alleviation.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Social Security

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