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On the recordOctober 6, 1960
each time the press has forecast a significant civil rights statement by Mr. Nixon in the South what has come out has been States rights
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Statement by Senator John F. Kennedy on Vice President Nixon and Civil Rights

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