John Kennedy actually said...

Because the power and prestige of the United States, relative to that of the Communist world, has diminished in the last decade; because these people wonder whether the future belongs to the Castros and the Khrushchevs and the neutralists who are turning to hostility.

Context

Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Government Square, Cincinnati, Ohio

10/05/1960

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