| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 22 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacity—and the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to life—our objective must also be to add new life to those years. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President JOHN F. KENNEDY, special message to the Congress on the needs of the nation’s senior citizens, February 21, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 189. |
| SUBJECTS: | Aged |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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