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    "ocrText": "#141 -- 11\n048\npeople trying to destroy the credit of their own Government?\" Now,\nthat is the fact. Why are newspapers trying to destroy the credit of\ntheir own Government? It is just one of those things. It is a little\nbit like that front page of the Sun that came out two weeks ago\nSaturday that I wrote to Will Dewart (N. Y. Sun) about. The average\nlayman, reading that sort of thing, says, \"My God, is the Government\ngoing to have trouble in financing a small amount of $1,700,000,000\non September 15th and October 15th?\" That is the impression he would\ngain from reading the financial pages and the front pages. And, of\ncourse, there is nothing to be done about it. You cannot do anything\nagainst it, that would be silly.\nSome day I am going to read to you, off the record, my letter\nto Bill Dewart which he got two weeks ago and to which he has not\nreplied. If I do say so, I think it is good.\nof I should think it would be. (Laughter)\nTHE PRESIDENT: There is one line which you cannot use because I am going\nto use it later on, and that was that I would have to amend what I\nsaid in my Inaugural Address when I said that the greatest thing that\nAmerica has to fear is fear itself. I would now say that there is a\ngreater thing that America needs to fear, and that is those who seek\nto instill fear into the American people.\nQ A number of the papers have been carrying stories recently to the ef-\nfect that the budget would not be balanced.\nTHE PRESIDENT: Oh, Stevie, (Mr. Stephenson) send this damn' thing down to\nyour office in Washington.\nQ (Mr. Stephenson) What date line is that?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Send it down. $500,000,000 -- this is off the record --\nit is an A. P. story that a five hundred million dollar tax bill is"
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