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On the recordSeptember 17, 1963
I do not say that a recession is inevitable without a tax cut, or impossible with one, but, excluding war years, we have had a recession on the average every 42 months since World War II.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill

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