Special Message to the Congress on Public Welfare Programs
01/31/1962
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much.
It is a great pleasure for Mrs. Kennedy and myself to welcome the Black Watch to the White House.
But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, ...