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On the recordOctober 22, 1960
These latter two are important issues but I think the American people want and deserve to hear us discuss all the important problems which face our country and to limit the subject of the fifth to one country would be to subvert the purpose of such a debate.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Text of a Telegram To Vice President Richard M. Nixon from Senator John F. Kennedy on Fifth Debate

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