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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We had a recession in 1954, we had a recession in 1948, we have a plateau today, which may lead to some difficulties in…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1960
We had a recession in 1954, we had a recession in 1948, we have a plateau today, which may lead to some difficulties in 1961, unless we can get the economy of the United States moving at the kind of growth which we see not just in the Soviet Union, but which we see in Germany and France and England.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Multnomah Hotel, Portland, OR

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