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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

The suggestion of a program of research, financing and development to serve the children of working mothers and of parents who for one reason and another cannot provide adequate care during the day deserves our full support.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

So those are the basic matters which separate us, and it is to your good judgment, your sense of responsibility, your concern for your country, your identification with the cause of freedom, that we entrust this decision on November 8.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

no amount of oratory, no extravagant claims or vociferous braggadocio, no unjustified charges, can hide the harsh fact that behind the rhetoric, behind the soothing words and the confusing figures, American strength relative to that of the…

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

Certainly it is not good for business to have two recessions within these past 7 years, as has been the case under the Republicans, or to have economic conditions so uncertain for a third time that many forecasters anticipate still another…

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

I wholly agree that, in addition to Federal leadership to control and prevent juvenile delinquency, we must have provision for day care centers for children whose mothers are unavailable during the day.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

It is a great country, but I believe it must be greater, and it is a powerful country, but I believe it must be more powerful, and I believe that our responsibility in the 1960's is to restore to the world the image of America as a society…

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 17, 1960

The fundamental problem of our time is the critical situation which has been created by the steady erosion of American power relative to that of the Communists in recent years.

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