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On the recordDecember 6, 1961
We can keep going by not merely invoking the past, but by using the past as a stimulus to the future.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Miami at the Young Democrats Convention.

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