John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “This country wants peace and this country wants freedom.”

On the recordMay 29, 1961

This country wants peace and this country wants freedom.

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Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at a Dinner of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation in New York City.

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