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On the recordJanuary 24, 1963
It has, in your phrase, been 'in accordance with the time honored conservation principle of effecting the maximum good for the maximum number.'
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter to Representative Aspinall Concerning Revision of the Public Land Laws.

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