12/15/1961
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"I think the job of the next President will be more difficult than any President since Abraham Lincoln."
"We proved it in two wars. We proved it in peacetime."
"Mr. Khrushchev said that the United States is a sick and dying and faltering horse. I don't believe it."
"I supported title 3 in 1957, and in 1960, and we were defeated in both cases."