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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I hope that if we are unsuccessful in this campaign, that the campaign, itself, the issue of this election, we will give…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1960
I hope that if we are unsuccessful in this campaign, that the campaign, itself, the issue of this election, we will give the next President of the United States, whoever he may be, a sense of purpose, a sense of his obligation to place before the American people our unfinished business.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Green Bay, WI

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