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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
In times past, a simple phrase, '54-40 or fight' or 'to make the world safe for democracy' - that was enough.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at West Point to the Graduating Class of the U.S. Military Academy.

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