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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Our task as a nation, to use the phrase of the Commission report, is simply to make sure that this public blessing is…”

On the recordJuly 21, 1963
Our task as a nation, to use the phrase of the Commission report, is simply to make sure that this public blessing is not a private curse.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress on the Railroad Rules Dispute.

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