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On the recordAugust 12, 1962
I think it is also important that the President of the United States report to the American people because he is, with the Vice President, the only American official elected by all of the people in all of the fifty States.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Radio and Television Report to the American People on the State of the National Economy

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