12/13/1967
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"We are familiar with those reports. As of now, they are just reports."
"We still have the best record of any industrial country in the world."
"I am naming Mr. Gardner Ackley, the present Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, as the new Ambassador to Italy."
"My statement is my own words, Mr. Frankel."