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On the recordApril 23, 1934
I hope you people from the Congress who are here will realize that in these many, many experiments that we are going to try, some are going to work—most of them, we hope—but some are not going to work because we have to learn which is the right way and which is the wrong way as we go along.
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Democratic · New York

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Remarks at the Subsistence Homes Exhibition

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