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FDR: We tried to rebuild that machine, to modernize it and to turn on the purchasing power.

On the recordOctober 20, 1936
We tried to rebuild that machine, to modernize it and to turn on the purchasing power.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at Providence, R.I.

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