What Happens with the National Debt
The Political Orphanage
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The Importance of Reducing Federal Spending
Congressman John Nance Garner warned that Herbert Hoover was taking the country down the path of socialism. The 1932 Democratic Party platform on which he ran included a provision for balancing the budget and promises to cut federal spending by 25 percent. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first vice president poses here with his wife in early 1930s.
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