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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I come here not because I enjoy driving around the countryside and making speeches, but because I have lived for 21…”

On the recordOctober 12, 1962
I come here not because I enjoy driving around the countryside and making speeches, but because I have lived for 21 months with a closely divided Congress, where we have lost measures like medical care under Social Security by a change of 1 vote in the Senate.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at City Hall, McKeesport, Pennsylvania

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