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On the recordDecember 13, 1962
Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions, and any new recession would break all deficit records.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York.

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