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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It's not an exaggeration to say that this endeavor proceeds under conditions today more fraught with peril than any in…”

On the recordDecember 5, 1961
It's not an exaggeration to say that this endeavor proceeds under conditions today more fraught with peril than any in our history.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers.

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