John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Clearly, political campaigns are essential to a democracy.”

On the recordApril 29, 1963

Clearly, political campaigns are essential to a democracy.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Transmitting Bills To Carry Out Recommendations of the...

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