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On the recordJanuary 16, 1963
The Federal budget has a double importance: It is an agenda of our purposes and priorities in the form of a plan for the conduct and financing of the public business.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1964.

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