Governor Lawrence, Mayor Lee, and other Democratic mayors and local officials have firsthand knowledge of the problems of cities, and I look to them for guidance and continued local leadership in meeting these problems.
Message from Senator John F. Kennedy to the Urban Problems Press Conference, Washington, DC
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I am glad to announce at this time that we are establishing a new division in the United States Office of Education to administer the teaching and research program under the act.
The rich must help the poor. The industrialized nations must help the developing nations.
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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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