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On the recordOctober 17, 1963
If we could increase our exports by 10 percent, we would have solved our balance of payments problem.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to Members of the Illinois Trade Mission to Europe.

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