John Kennedy actually said...

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.

Context

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

12/13/1962

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