President Kennedy called on Congress today to help him complete the Job he started last year in assuring “full and equal rights” to all citizens “of any race or color.”
In his State of the Union message to a Joint session of the Congress, the President said the Administration’s action during 1961 on civil rights “has shown as never before how much could be done through the full exercise powers.” But he said “there is much more to be done–by the Executive, by the courts and by the Congress.”
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