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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

But the problem of automation is a national problem - and we must begin to think about it on a national scale.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

The man who opposes a decent increase in the minimum wage is not likely to be more generous toward a badly underpaid schoolteacher.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

The law says that you can only vote once on election day, but if you will go out and register one person between now and the time of election in November, then you can vote twice.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

I take my case to you because I am confident that the American people are not going to tolerate pockets of poverty and chronic unemployment in this land, the waste of idle men and women who are ready, willing, and able to work, or the…

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

I admire the President of the United States as a man, but I do not believe that we can continue the same kind of leadership in the future.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

I think we have an opportunity to make a choice of whether we are going to continue to move forward, as I believe we must.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

I am here to ask for a mandate - a mandate to achieve the promises of that stirring and historic document the 1960 Democratic platform.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Sep 4, 1960

We must restore full employment to our schedule of national priorities - striving - for a more rapid growth of the American economy.

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