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FDR: “I do not promise you that every bank will be reopened or that individual losses will not be suffered, but there will be…”

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I do not promise you that every bank will be reopened or that individual losses will not be suffered, but there will be no losses that possibly could be avoided; and there would have been more and greater losses had we continued to drift.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt acknowledged the uncertainty of bank reopenings but promised to minimize losses.

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