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On the recordJanuary 21, 1962
Recurrent recessions have thrown the postwar American economy off stride at a time when the economies of other major industrial countries have moved steadily ahead.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to the Congress Presenting the President's First Economic Report

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