"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

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Academics from the United StatesAcademics from CanadaEconomists from CanadaUnited States Ambassadors to IndiaEconomists from the United States
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Letter to John F. Kennedy (2 March 1962), printed in Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal (1969)