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FDR: We have got the train started and it is running, let us say, twenty miles an hour.

On the recordSeptember 7, 1933
We have got the train started and it is running, let us say, twenty miles an hour.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Extemporaneous Address at the 1933 Conference on Mobilization for Human Needs

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