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In gaffe, Biden said FDR led when market crashed
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| Contributor | C Dykstra |
| Last Edited | C Dykstra Sep 23, 2008 08:38pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."
Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. |
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