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On the recordSeptember 6, 1960
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.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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

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