For six years we have led the nation in what many consider to be the largest peacetime economic expansion in history.

It was the largest peacetime expansion in living memory.

"The result was we got the longest peacetime expansion in history."

And, yes, the largest peacetime economic expansion in history has been temporarily interrupted.

Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

After inflation, that represented a 50 percent increase, the biggest peacetime expansion of the military in the nation's history.

It follows the American economy's longest (eight years) peacetime expansion.

Yes, the largest peacetime economic expansion in history had been temporarily interrupted.

And the result, of course, has been the longest economic peacetime expansion in our history.

After all, he writes, the 1980's were the "longest period of peacetime economic expansion in our history."