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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Education, medical care for the aged, job opportunities, equal rights--those are the things that this country stands…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1962
Education, medical care for the aged, job opportunities, equal rights--those are the things that this country stands for, and we can get those things only if we elect men who believe in them.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at a Rally in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

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