John Kennedy actually said...

At our present rate of urban renewal it will take over 50 years to wipe out the substandard dwellings already in existence - and at the end of that time we will have even more substandard dwellings than we have now.

Context

Statement of Senator John F. Kennedy at Salem, OR, On National Forests Management

09/06/1960

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