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Quiz #5

 
Which of these expressions did President Roosevelt use in describing the new Social Security program?

A. “. . . we have tried to frame a law which gives at least some measure of protection . . . against the loss of a job and against poverty-stricken old age.”

B. “. . . a cornerstone in a structure that is being built but is by no means complete.”

C. “It is . . . a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.”

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