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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I stand where Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman stood, and I want your help.”

On the recordOctober 19, 1960
I stand where Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman stood, and I want your help.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

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