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I got a one-day job the other day in a focus group acting as a jury in a mock trial. It was the first new money that I'd come across in a while and I was running out of laundry detergent and dental floss and toilet paper. I bought some underwear and two pairs of shorts because my clothes were turning to faded rags. I bought a new shirt, too, but not to wear. I'll save it for a job interview that I hope to have some day.

"On the farms, and in the large metropolitan areas, in the smaller cities and in the villages, millions of our citizens cherish the hope that their old standards of living and of thought have not gone forever. Those millions cannot and shall not hope in vain. I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." Franklin Delano Roosevelt


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