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Richard M. nixon presented by Edwin Cooney

With the growing concern of the nation's economy, historian Edwin Cooney has
been invited to launch this special program series by providing a historical
overview of the economic depressions in America. He will begin by defining
just what the term depression means and then will briefly review the history
of economic depressions during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
substance of the presentation, however, will be the scope of the "Great
Depression" from 1929 to 1942, including the causes of the depression as