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FDR: We shall make the most orderly progress if we look upon social security as a development toward a goal rather than a…

On the recordJanuary 15, 1939
We shall make the most orderly progress if we look upon social security as a development toward a goal rather than a finished product.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Transmittal to Congress of a Report of the Social Security Board

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