John Kennedy actually said...

To plan a deficit under such circumstances would increase the risk of inflationary pressures, damaging alike to our domestic economy and to our international balance of payments.

Context

Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1963.

01/17/1962

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