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FDR: “It would be a great deal better for the Government as a whole if Congress could keep in very close touch with the…”

On the recordDecember 28, 1933
It would be a great deal better for the Government as a whole if Congress could keep in very close touch with the operations of the administrative branch of the Government right straight through the year.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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