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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1961
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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