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On the recordOctober 16, 1960
We have to prepare it for motion, we have to prepare it to move, we have to get the best people we can get, and then we have to organize our structure so that they can act.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Wittenberg College Stadium, Springfield, Ohio

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