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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “There are those who say that the job is done, that the function of the federal Government is not to govern, that all the…”

On the recordMay 18, 1962
There are those who say that the job is done, that the function of the federal Government is not to govern, that all the things that had to be done were done in the thirties and the forties, and that now our task is merely to administer.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in New York City at the Dedication of the Penn Station South Urban Renewal Project.

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