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On the recordApril 27, 1961
I said in my State of the Union Address that we intended to give equal attention to both-and we intend to do so.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address in Chicago at a Dinner of the Democratic Party of Cook County

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