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World Service,30 May 2013,9 mins

The New Deal

Witness History

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Eighty years ago, new US president Franklin Roosevelt promised to spend his first 100 days in office rescuing America from the Great Depression with one of the biggest public spending projects in history - the New Deal. Image Credit: AP

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