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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “One of the great challenges of the sixties will be to strengthen the small independent businessman against the large…”

On the recordOctober 9, 1960
One of the great challenges of the sixties will be to strengthen the small independent businessman against the large business units which threaten to crowd him from the American economic scene - and to reverse the disastrous policies which are destroying this historic cornerstone of our free enterprise system.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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The Kennedy Record on Small Business - (Democratic National Committee Release)

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