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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962 Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961 A Thousand Days Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1965)attributed in The Harper Book of American Quotations eds. Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich (1988)commencement address Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

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There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily.... Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. quoted in Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy, pt. 3, ch. 12 (1965).

Said of Khruschev's control of the Soviet press.

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