I do not downgrade America.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I do not downgrade America.”
On the recordOctober 15, 1960
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Speech by the Honorable John F. Kennedy, at Boys' Gymnasium, Montgomery-Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD
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