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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “To just mouth the old slogans, to talk about the problems of China as if it were just a problem of keeping them out of…”

On the recordOctober 21, 1960
To just mouth the old slogans, to talk about the problems of China as if it were just a problem of keeping them out of the United Nations - that is easy.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Northland Shopping Center, Jennings, MO

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