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On the recordJanuary 20, 1963
It is desirable that we hold to or better the schedule laid down in 1961, and reach firm decisions as soon as practicable in 1963 on future actions concerning the development of a supersonic aircraft.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Memorandum on Development of a Civil Supersonic Air Transport.

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