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On the recordOctober 11, 1960
I do not intend to let Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists decide whether our troops shall fight on those islands.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy Prepared for a Dinner Held by the Democratic National and State Committees, Waldorf-...

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