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On the recordDecember 13, 1962
But a leading nation, a nation upon which all depend not only in this country but around the world, cannot afford to be satisfied, to look back or to pause.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York.

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