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FDR: We have plowed the furrow and planted the good seed; the hard beginning is over.

On the recordJanuary 2, 1934
We have plowed the furrow and planted the good seed; the hard beginning is over.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Annual Message to Congress

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