John Kennedy actually said...

A Gallup poll taken in 10 countries a few months ago asked the people of those countries who they thought would be first in 1970, militarily and scientifically, the Russians or the United States.

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Picnic, Muskegon, MI

09/04/1960

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