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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nhelpful to us when we come to write some decent Democratic labor legislation\ns\nTHE\nin Washington.\nTHE U.S. ARCHIVES \"NATIONAL SERVICE'S RECORDS AND\nGOVERNMENT\nCarl McGuigan and Allen Frear tell me that some of the people who work\nhere in Wilmington are forced to find a place to live clear over in Penn-\nsylvania.\nI say that is wrong and I say we can do something about it.\nYou know all about FHA, Low Rent Public Housing, Slum Clearance, and\nthe other great housing programs enacted by President Roosevelt's administra-\ntion. During the war, we were too busy building guns and tanks to build\nhouses. When the war ended, it became clear to me that we would have a\nhousing shortage. So I submitted to Congress a comprehensive housing program\nto meet this shortage. We called it the Wagner-Ellender-Taft Bill. It would\nthat familys\nenable every American family, whatever their income, to have a decent place\nto live.\nThe Republicans and the powerful real estate lobby have fought that bill\ntoo th and nail.\nI proposed this great housing program to the 80th Congress."
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