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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Possibly he is so uninformed on world affairs that he did not know our prestige had declined.”

On the recordOctober 24, 1960
Possibly he is so uninformed on world affairs that he did not know our prestige had declined.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Excerpts of Remarks by Senator John F. Kennedy, York Town Ship High School, Elmhurst, IL

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