Remarks Upon Signing the Trade Expansion Act
10/10/1962
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I think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.
And to weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rej...
But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
But don't make it impossible for us to function by legislative restraints or inadequate appropriations.