Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Now it is time to develop a long-range plan and policy for construction—to provide the best use of our resources and to prepare in advance against any other emergency.

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Message to Congress Transmitting the National Resource Committee's Six-Year Program of Public Works

02/02/1937

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