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On the recordOctober 4, 1960
The kind of leadership which this country has, the kind of President which you elect, the kind of Congress which is dominated by one party or another, has a good deal to do with the prosperity of this city of Anderson, and the prosperity of the State of Indiana.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Anderson, IN

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