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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided…”

On the recordNovember 7, 1963
The United States is not in the position which England was when Benjamin Disraeli described it as: two nations divided, the rich and the poor.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York.

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