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On the recordMay 18, 1962
The power given to the President of the United States, under the Constitution, particularly that of war and peace, is as great a power and in many senses more than man could possibly desire.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in Response to New York's Birthday Salute to the President

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