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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I stand in direct succession to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt who in their day and generation recognized that…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1960
I stand in direct succession to Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt who in their day and generation recognized that there was a responsibility for the people as a whole, working through their government, to move this country ahead, and I stand in that tradition.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Battle Creek, MI

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