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FDR: It was a program designed first and foremost to give work to the unemployed.

On the recordOctober 16, 1936
It was a program designed first and foremost to give work to the unemployed.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Dedication of the Federal Building, Buffalo, N.Y.

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