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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “But if you hold the view, whether you are a farmer, whether you are an industrial worker, whether you are a citizen…”

On the recordOctober 16, 1960
But if you hold the view, whether you are a farmer, whether you are an industrial worker, whether you are a citizen, whether you have children in school who want and need a good education, whether you have a view of the United States as fulfilling a great destiny in a dangerous time in the life of freedom, then I ask you to join us.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, London, Ohio

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