John Kennedy actually said...

These are the rapidly growing islands of poverty in the midst of a rich and abundant America - islands which have been growing in number and expanding in size under the leadership of a Republican Party which is indifferent to the urgent human needs of our own people.

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Excerpts from the Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Evansville, IN - (Advance Release Text)

10/03/1960

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