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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is an old issue that has been fought in this country year after year, political generation after political…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1960
It is an old issue that has been fought in this country year after year, political generation after political generation, and that is between the happy and the content and the fat, and the concerned and those who look forward.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Fieldhouse, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

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