Excerpts from the Press Conference
06/08/1942
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Humanity came first.
The truth is that we are doing better than we anticipated in 1933.
I am sure that those in this audience who are devotees of outdoor life... will rejoice to know what has been done during the last three and ...
Our national income had declined over 50 percent—and, what was worse, it showed no prospect of recuperating by itself.