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On the recordSeptember 8, 1960
President Eisenhower's own Housing Administrator has admitted that during this Republican administration we are losing the race against spreading slums.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message from Senator John F. Kennedy to the Urban Problems Press Conference, Washington, DC

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