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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We are on the frontier of an era which holds the possibilities of a new Golden Age in which the inroads of poverty…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1960
We are on the frontier of an era which holds the possibilities of a new Golden Age in which the inroads of poverty, hunger, and disease will be lessened.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Statement of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., Denver, CO

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