05/02/1961
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"We can use tariffs to cushion adjustment instead of using them only to shut off competition."
"I hope that some of your most alarming feelings of a year ago about the imminent collapse of the whole business system if I was elected have been somewhat lessened."
"I remind you of this only to indicate the happy failure of many of our most pessimistic predictions."
"We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators."