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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.”

On the recordJanuary 19, 1961
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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