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FDR: “I like to stress not only the fact of four million, but also the fact that of those four millions of people two million…”

On the recordNovember 14, 1933
I like to stress not only the fact of four million, but also the fact that of those four millions of people two million are today on what we might just as well call, frankly, a dole.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Speech to C.W.A. Conference in Washington

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