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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The Secretary of Agriculture would be specifically instructed to report to him by October 15 on both firm and interim…”

On the recordJuly 25, 1962
The Secretary of Agriculture would be specifically instructed to report to him by October 15 on both firm and interim increases in national forest allowable cuts to assure a continuation of timber sales at or beyond the record levels achieved in the most recent quarter of 1962.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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White House Statement on a Program of Assistance to the Lumber Industry.

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