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On the recordDecember 6, 1961
Our country can use the coming months as the leader of the Free World to demonstrate that it is the leader in fact as well as in name.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in Miami at the Young Democrats Convention.

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