Transcript: Obama’s Fifth News Conference - nytimes

Six months ago, I took office amid the worst recession in half a century. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month, and our financial system was on the verge of collapse. As a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we've been able to pull our economy back from the brink. Transcript: Obama’s Fifth News Conference

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