02/14/1961
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"The Democratic Party is a national party."
"For that will be achieved, not by painting everything rosy colors, as the Vice President seemed to suggest in our debate last night, but by showing our ability to face the facts and to make a responsi..."
"My judgment is that the Republican Party as presently constituted and presently led has not demonstrated either in the past or during this campaign that they have this kind of competence."
"I cannot believe in the dangerous years of the 1960's that the American people are going to say 'No' to progress by electing the Republican Party again."