And when we got to Madison Square park, what I remembered is that that was a very fitting place to end, because Madison Square park was the birthplace of the disability rights movement in the Great Depression. At the time of the New Deal, FDR had created the Works Project Administration, the WPA, to create jobs for Americans who are out of work. But in the first round, they had not created any jobs for people with disabilities. (44:56–45:03)
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