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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Madison and Jefferson and Franklin and all the others who built the United States, who built our Constitution, who built…

On the recordJune 25, 1963
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin and all the others who built the United States, who built our Constitution, who built it on a sound framework, I believe set an example for us all.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address at the Free University of Berlin

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