FDR: “I have been getting along with a perfectly inefficient machine for…”

On the recordApril 7, 1938

I have been getting along with a perfectly inefficient machine for five years, and I can do it for the next three and one-quarter years.

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Democratic · New York

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Press Conference with Editors and Publishers of Trade Papers in Washington

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FDR: “I have been getting along with a perfectly inefficient machine for five years, and I can do it for the next three and…”