01/23/1968
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"We are not children playing with sticks and stones."
"MONETARY policy is one of our crucially important tools for maintaining a healthy and noninflationary economy."
"We sincerely hope that this achievement will be taken as a lesson and example by the entire world."
"As a result, the gold outflow--which averaged an alarming $1.7 billion a year from 1958 through 1960--was cut in half in 1961 and 1962, and has ceased entirely over the past 12 months."