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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We merely do not run for office, but we also seek to establish a basic point, that what this country is now doing is not…”

On the recordOctober 16, 1960
We merely do not run for office, but we also seek to establish a basic point, that what this country is now doing is not good enough.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Jefferson-Jackson Day Brunch, Middletown, Ohio

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