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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want to talk with you this evening not about the missile gap... but the 'Nixon gap,' the difference between Mr.…”

On the recordOctober 23, 1960
I want to talk with you this evening not about the missile gap... but the 'Nixon gap,' the difference between Mr. Nixon's campaign promises and his actual record.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Excerpts of Remarks by Senator John F. Kennedy at Rock Island, IL

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