S7 E6: Thirty Glorious Years
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The Great Depression: Peggy Terry's Perspective
- Peggy Terry, in an interview with Studs Terkel, shared her experience of the Great Depression, stating simply, "you were hungry."
- She emphasized the difficulty of conveying the experience to those who haven't lived through it.
- Terry noted a shared understanding among those she knew that the Depression wasn't their fault, but rather a failure of the 'machinery' of the system.
- While many blamed President Hoover, she recognized that the economic collapse wasn't solely attributable to one person.
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