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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The conquest of unemployment is not the sole end of economic policy, but it is surely an indispensable beginning.”

On the recordJanuary 21, 1962
The conquest of unemployment is not the sole end of economic policy, but it is surely an indispensable beginning.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to the Congress Presenting the President's First Economic Report

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