Political Quotes

On the recordSeptember 7, 1960
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.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Rear Platform Remark of Senator John F. Kennedy, Red Bluff, CA

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