FDR: “If we had all the money in the world to spend I would gladly go ahead…”

On the recordDecember 19, 1937

If we had all the money in the world to spend I would gladly go ahead with road building in every county in the United States on an even greater scale than we are doing at the present time.

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Democratic · New York

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Letter on Appropriations for Highways and Roads

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