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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “And in the most remote bushlands of central Africa there are children named Thomas Jefferson and George Washington - but…”

On the recordOctober 11, 1960
And in the most remote bushlands of central Africa there are children named Thomas Jefferson and George Washington - but there are none named Lenin or Stalin or Trotsky.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, National Council of Women, Inc., Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY

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