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On the recordMarch 13, 1963
The Surgeon General of the Department of the Army shall, from time to time, prescribe or approve a list enumerating various medical conditions or physical defects that disqualify registrants for service in the Armed Forces.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Executive Order 11098—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

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Nov 7, 1963

We are attempting, in cooperation with the State and the city, as Reverend Potter described, to carry out a pilot program here in the city of New York, but it is only a beginning, and there are hundreds of thousands without resources, and we have a responsibility to all of them.

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The Family of Man can survive differences of race and religion. Contrary to the assertions of Mr. Khrushchev, it can accept differences of ideology, politics, and economics.

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The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.

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But it is a fact that the imports of woolens and worsteds have gone up from about 15 to 22 or 23 percent.

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