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On the recordOctober 11, 1962
When I became President of the United States in January 1961, this State had one of the largest numbers of unemployed in the whole country, nearly 500,000 people.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at a Rally in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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