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Message from Senator John F. Kennedy to the Urban Problems Press Conference, Washington, DC

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Nov 11, 1963

The concurrence of the Board of Commissioners in those recommendations should assure that the entire District Highway Program can now move forward.

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The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, the rich and the poor.

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Nov 6, 1963

I hope that we will define handicapped so that we do make a major effort on all those who are handicapped.

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Nov 7, 1963

Contrary to repeated warnings, prophecies, and expressions of hope, in the 17 years since the Marshall plan began, I know of no single officeholder who was ever defeated because he supported this program, and the burden is less today than…

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