I run for the office of the Presidency in the most difficult time in the life of our country, in many ways the most difficult in a hundred years.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I run for the office of the Presidency in the most difficult time in the life of our country, in many ways the most…”
On the recordSeptember 7, 1960
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Rear Platform Remark of Senator John F. Kennedy, Red Bluff, CA
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