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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It will be forty-two years tomorrow since women gained the right to participate fully in the governing of our country…”

On the recordAugust 25, 1962
It will be forty-two years tomorrow since women gained the right to participate fully in the governing of our country through the right to vote.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on Receiving Report by the Commission on the Status of Women.

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