John Kennedy actually said...

Our great contribution, it seems to me, that we can make in our time, as distinct from the contribution of the Roosevelts and Pinchot which was in a sense the management of resources, their preservation against their unreasonable exploitation by private interests-our great contribution in the fifties and the sixties, it seems to me, is applying the great discoveries of science to this question of conservation

05/24/1962

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