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On the recordSeptember 17, 1963
This Nation needs a tax cut now, not a tax cut if and when, but a tax cut now, and for the future.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill

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