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On the recordMarch 5, 1963
The fact of the matter is the Congress last year appropriated half a billion dollars more than we had requested for national security. Now they are talking about cutting it $3 billion or $5 billion.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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