System This excerpt is from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address in 1933.
In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. ... Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes
have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of
exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no
markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone. More important, a host of unemployed
citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can
deny the dark realities of the moment,
How does the excerpt from President Hoover's press conference differ from President Roosevelt's inaugural address?
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Only Roosevelt acknowledges widespread economic problems,
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Only Hoover admits that the country's economic problems have an international basis.
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Only Roosevelt advises that the federal government should focus on the economic problems.
Only Hoover says that the federal government is responsible for the country's economic problems.
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