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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the Federal Government's most useful role is not to rush into a…”

On the recordDecember 13, 1962
In short, to increase demand and lift the economy, the Federal Government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York.

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