In times past, a simple phrase, '54-40 or fight' or 'to make the world safe for democracy' - that was enough.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “In times past, a simple phrase, '54-40 or fight' or 'to make the world safe for democracy' - that was enough.”
On the recordJune 5, 1962
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Remarks at West Point to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy.
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