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Romney's comments came the same day the Commerce Department reported that the nation's recovery may be slowing, although he ignored the news while speaking at Otterbein University. "The president is going to want to take credit for the economy getting better, and I am convinced it will get better. Every recession ends. Every recession ultimately becomes a recovery," he said. Romney added: "This just happens to be the most anemic and tepid recovery we've seen since Hoover." President Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929 and, as the nation struggled amid an economic depression, lost re-election to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. The Commerce Department estimated that the economy grew at 2.2 percent over the first three months of the year. That's compared to 3 percent growth in the previous three months. Romney offered a more measured tone than he had in the final weeks of the competitive phase of the GOP primary season. He did not mention Obama by name in a speech that spanned more than 40 minutes, although he condemned the president's policies that target the wealthy. "I will try and unite the American people, not divide us," he said.
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