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On the recordMarch 30, 2009
only with the New Deal's rehabilitation of the financial system in 1933-35 did the economy begin its slow emergence from the Great Depression.
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Ben Bernanke
Republican · South Carolina

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Bernanke emphasizes the New Deal's role in reviving the economy after the Great Depression.

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