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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Its brightest days are bound to come in the years of the 1960's and 1970's, and what I feel we have to do, and I say…”

On the recordOctober 17, 1960
Its brightest days are bound to come in the years of the 1960's and 1970's, and what I feel we have to do, and I say this after 14 years in the Congress, after serving in the Senate for 8 years with both of your Senators, in the House of Representatives with your Congressmen, in my judgment this great country deserves the best from all of us.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, 163d Street Shopping Center, North Miami Beach, FL

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