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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Students of the Control Data Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

… is based on competitive bidding, and under the -- what's called GATT -- this is the general tariff and trade treaties that we have with our trading partners -- we assure them that they will …

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Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group

… the U.S. commitment to an open world trading system by rejecting protectionist quota and tariff relief for the steel industry. I've decided instead to take vigorous action against unfair …

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Interview With Independent Network Washington Bureau Chiefs

… -- led literally to a worldwide depression. It just isn't the way to go. This Smoot-Hawley tariff was the villain, in that case, that perpetuated and added to the Depression. Q. During the …

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Address to a Joint Session of Parliament in Ottawa, Canada

… of international economic cooperation that saw the creation of GATT, which knocked down the tariff barriers that had so damaged the world economy; the International Monetary Fund; and 30 …

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Remarks to the International Forum of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States

… bad for business, and it's bad for America. I'm old enough to remember the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which helped spread the Depression worldwide, and I'm not about to let that happen. …

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The President's News Conference

… we all recognize is the specter of protectionism -- that vain search for security behind tariff walls and inside closed markets. History has proved again and again the fallacy of that …

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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio

… worldwide depression really was prolonged and brought on by a thing called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, which thought that through a kind of general protectionism we could help ourselves, and …

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Interview With Foreign Journalists

… period of time than need be because our country turned to a thing called the Smoot-Hawley tariff. And I think that was a great factor in our decline. So, no, I think that all the signs -- …

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Interview With Foreign Television Journalists

… the fires of that Depression was protectionism throughout the world and our own Smoot-Hawley tariff bill which was passed at the beginning of that Great Depression. That is not the way to …

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Interview With Lou Cannon, Dave Hoffman, and Lynn Downie of the Washington Post

… Depression, I think the Great Depression was extended and carried on and worsened because of a tariff situation on our part, called Smoot-Hawley, that reacted unfavorably against us. It was …

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