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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I think all of us have a public obligation, all of us owe some of our lives and some of our effort to the advancement of…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1962
I think all of us have a public obligation, all of us owe some of our lives and some of our effort to the advancement of the interests of our society, particularly when our society bears such heavy burdens as it does here and around the world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the 18th Annual Washington Conference of the Advertising Council.

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