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On the recordSeptember 8, 1960
I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising that if you elect me life will be easier.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Rear Platform Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Tulare, CA

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