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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I don't suppose that anyone who lives through a very revolutionary period recognizes how extraordinary it is.”

On the recordOctober 14, 1962
I don't suppose that anyone who lives through a very revolutionary period recognizes how extraordinary it is.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Ben Bella

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