FDR: “We seek not the prosperity of 1929 but the kind which will mean to…”

On the recordOctober 20, 1936

We seek not the prosperity of 1929 but the kind which will mean to every American family an assurance of safety of the home.

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Democratic · New York

Source

Address at Providence, R.I.

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