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On the recordFebruary 13, 1963
As a further step to carry out the Committee's recommendations, I am requesting the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, as part of the Council's role in advising me on economic policy, to organize, under his chairmanship, an advisory committee to review the special economic problems that may arise from time to time in each of the major areas involving important domestic credit aids.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Memorandum on the Report of the Committee on Federal Credit Programs.

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