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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Now, this idea that there are three services and therefore you can save $3 billion by cutting $1 billion out of each and…

On the recordMarch 5, 1963
Now, this idea that there are three services and therefore you can save $3 billion by cutting $1 billion out of each and at the same time when a good many members make speeches which are very militant, which would suggest that the solution to our problems can be best obtained by war actions or warlike actions, it doesn't seem to me that we ought to be cutting our defenses at this time.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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