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On the recordOctober 1, 1960
I cannot believe, faced with the difficult problems that this country now faces, that the American people are going to turn back to a Republican leadership.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Chase Hotel, St. Louis, MO

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