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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Nation Is in Economic Trouble as President Cleveland Takes Office ? 配套节目资料下载 下载常见问题解答 节目资料名称 下载位置 MP3 声音下载 (3.46 M) 中国电信·南京 Real 声音下载 (2.29 M) 中国电信·南京 PDF 广播稿下载 (67 K) 中国电信·南京 下载提示：请用右键点下载链接，在弹出菜单上选“目标另存为...”。 LRC 歌词下载请用左键点击。仅限实名、高级会员使用。 当前词典：Dreye 译典通英汉词典（百度版） ?? 窗体底端 你知道吗？通过“词典功能设置”可以开启双击自动查词功能。 Written by Frank Beardsley (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America. (MUSIC) Im Shirley Griffith. Today, Frank Oliver and I begin the story of Grover Clevelands second presidency. VOICE TWO: In March, eighteen eighty-nine, President Grover Cleveland left the White House after four years as President. He had been defeated by Benjamin Harrison. As the President and his wife left, Misses Cleveland spoke with a member of the White House staff. She said: I want you to take good care of everything. I want to find it the same when we come back. And we will be back...in four years. Crowds gather outside the Capitol building for Grover Clevelands inauguration in 1893 Misses Cleveland was right. She and her husband moved back into the White House after he became president again in eighteen ninety-three. Grover Cleveland is the only man to serve two terms separated by the administration of a different president. VOICE ONE: Cleveland did not want to be president again. But he was worried about the future of the United States. He did not think President Harrison could solve the serious economic problems the country faced. President Harrison had approved very high taxes on imports. He also had approved an increase in the supply of silver money. Grover Cleveland said both actions had hurt the economy. He also feared that Harrison was not strong enough to oppose the demands of special interest groups in the Republican Party. Benjamin Harrison Cleveland believed he was the only Democrat who could defeat Harrison. He won his partys nomination. And he was easily elected to a second presidency