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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 15, 1960

I am in favor of continuing the appropriation of Federal funds for vocational education at the full amounts authorized under the various vocational education acts.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

I believe the President of the United States in January 1961 should recognize this as a national problem and in every basic industry set up committees of labor, management, and the Government.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

I am a Democrat, east, west, north, south, a Democrat who stands in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, in Pennsylvania, in California in Georgia, in Massachusetts.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

I think in 1960, if we choose progress, it can be a rising sun for this country and the beginning of a great new day.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

Mr. Nixon's new definition of himself as a practical progressive" enunciated in Los Angeles yesterday further adds to the confusion of just where the Vice President stands on the key issues facing our country.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

Mr. Nixon can apply any label he wants to this record, but the record speaks far more eloquently than his changing definitions.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

I say as the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, as a member of a party which has produced Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and Governor Lawrence and Senator Clark, a party which believes in progress, we commit ourselves to a…

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

If there was ever a formula for inaction, for standing still, for those Americans who don't want anything done, that is the solution.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 14, 1960

Mr. Nixon can call it practical progressivism or economic conservatism, but the label does not hide the package.

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