Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depends greatly on our sense of values; and it depends on our willingness to give up a little of today in order to have a tomorrow. While the challenges of the moment are most serious in a policymaking sense, I see no reason for black despair or for defeatist doubts. We can do whatever we have to do in order to survive and to meet any form of economic or political competition we are likely to face. All this we can do with one proviso: we must be willing to do our best...