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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It has, in your phrase, been 'in accordance with the time honored conservation principle of effecting the maximum good…”

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

Editor's note · Context

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

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