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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We must reject all proposals such as those of the Department of Commerce and the Budget Bureau of the Eisenhower-Nixon…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1960
We must reject all proposals such as those of the Department of Commerce and the Budget Bureau of the Eisenhower-Nixon administration for imposition of burdens upon the use of the waterways - including tolls, toll-equivalent taxes and so-called user charges - which would destroy the values of investments heretofore made in such facilities.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Statement of Senator John F. Kennedy on Waterways Development, Washington, DC

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