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FDR: The wider we can have a distribution of wealth in the proper sense of that term, the more we can make it possible for…

On the recordOctober 20, 1933
The wider we can have a distribution of wealth in the proper sense of that term, the more we can make it possible for every man, woman, and child throughout the land to have the necessities.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Remarks at Washington College, Chestertown, Md., on Receiving an Honorary Degree

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