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On the recordSeptember 4, 1960
We have the tools - the legislation and the programs to put men back to work - and in 1961 we are going to do it.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Cadillac Square, Detroit, MI

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