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On the recordOctober 4, 1960
Let us initiate a program based on the principle that Clay and Webster lived by - the rising tide lifts all the boats.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Excerpts from the Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Fair Grounds, Louisville, KY

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