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On the recordSeptember 6, 1960
I think we can demonstrate in the next 10 years, in the next 40 years, that our high noon is in the future, that our best days are ahead that our system is in keeping with the basic aspirations of the human people, all over the globe, and the Communist system is doomed to fail.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Salem, OR, State Fairgrounds

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