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On the recordSeptember 6, 1960
A free society is the most difficult of all kinds of government to maintain, and it can only be done if we have the best educated and the best trained citizens.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Eugene, OR, Courthouse Square

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