John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I am not satisfied, as an American, to see people who want to work…”

On the recordApril 27, 1961

I am not satisfied, as an American, to see people who want to work can't find a job.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address in Chicago at a Dinner of the Democratic Party of Cook County

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I am not satisfied, as an American, to see people who want to work can't find a job.”