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On the recordDecember 5, 1961
The United States still holds some 43% of the Free World's monetary gold stock, a proportion far larger than our share of its trade and clearly sufficient to tide us over a temporary deficit period--and I emphasize the words temporary deficit period--while we mount an offensive to reverse these trends.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers.

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