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FDR: What we have been trying to do in the past four years, from the point of view of economics, has had a comparatively…

On the recordOctober 8, 1936
What we have been trying to do in the past four years, from the point of view of economics, has had a comparatively simple objective—getting people work and producing buying power for them.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Rear-Platform Remarks at Oelwein, Iowa

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