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pampango

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16. FDR produced the IMF, World Bank, Bank for International Settlements, the International Clearing

Reply to Kip Humphrey (Reply #6)

Wed Jun 3, 2015, 06:05 PM

Jun 2015

Union and the International Trade Organization (which included GATT) all at the same conference in 1944.

But that's FDR's list from 1944. No idea what Obama's list looks like.

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