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  • : I was born the twenty-first of June, 1918, in Marquette, Michigan. My father was at that time the principal of the high school there, and he later, when I was two years old, moved down to the Detroit area. When I was four he moved to River Rouge
  • ever known in his life and he wanted him to be president. "But," he said, "I have the practical side that John Kennedy is a folk hero, and I don't have any choice. I have to support him for the presidency. But if I were free, I would be for Lyndon
  • said something that seemed to be supportive of the President's hopes or wishes on some aspect of policy, and he referred to it in a speech or a press conference or something, which irritated us consid­ erably. Because, after that, Pierre claimed
  • of conscious use of budget expenditures and tax policy for economic stabilization, for full employment and related policies. M: Okay~ would you use that phrase that you just gave as a definition of the "new economics"? H: The "new economics," as the press