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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is sometimes easy for us, living in our nations' capitals, to become disheartened about the nature of the struggle.”

On the recordMarch 18, 1963
It is sometimes easy for us, living in our nations' capitals, to become disheartened about the nature of the struggle.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at El Bosque Housing Project Near San Jose.

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