09/26/1962
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"I think that President Eisenhower is not running this year, and Governor Rockefeller was not nominated."
"It is time, in short, for a Democratic program - and we have such a program - and in 1961 we are going to put it into action."
"I look to the future of the United States with optimism."
"It is essential, therefore, that we compel the complete reevaluation of our national defense organization, that we eliminate the wasteful duplication, the service rivalry, the competitive overlapping,..."