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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “While the road to that peace is long and hard, and full of traps and pitfalls, there is no reason not to take each step…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1963
While the road to that peace is long and hard, and full of traps and pitfalls, there is no reason not to take each step that we can safely take.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address at the University of Maine

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