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On the recordSeptember 6, 1960
I run for the office of the Presidency realizing that in the next 4 years it is going to be the most difficult years that we have ever had.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Eugene, OR, Courthouse Square

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