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On the recordOctober 4, 1962
I hold the view in 1962, with all of the great problems that we have here in the United States at home, that it is vitally important that we have an executive branch of the Government and a House and a Senate which is committed to progress.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks Upon Arrival at Greater Cincinnati Airport, Erlanger, Kentucky

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