Political Quotes

Joseph Kennedy

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Sep 3, 1960

No, we will have additional information as time goes on, but I have not enough to give you anything.

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Sep 3, 1960

I think that in the SAC briefing of General Wheeler there was emphasis on the good.

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Sep 3, 1960

I would judge that, but there have been notorious exceptions to that.

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Sep 3, 1960

I think that the lesson we learned from this session was that you cannot possibly pass these bills unless you have the support of the administration, unless you have the affirmative endorsement by whoever is President of the United States, because the power of veto hangs so heavily over the Congress, especially in a short session, where it would be extremely difficult to override and especially with the parliamentary devices available.

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Sep 3, 1960

But I can assure you that if we are successful in the election in November that the depression for this country will be over.

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Sep 2, 1960

The question was, Do I think we will carry all of them and I said \I could not make a judgment on that at this time. I have not been down South yet.\

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