It is time for a program which views an abundance of wheat as an opportunity to provide hungry people with a decent diet - not as an unwanted stock of useless grain to be stored and forgotten.
On the recordSeptember 5, 1960
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Statement of Senator John F. Kennedy on Wheat Program, Spokane, WA, Caravan Inn
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