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On the recordAugust 29, 1960
Today I would prefer to confine what I have to say and the discussion afterward to this one subject.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Press Conference of Senator John F. Kennedy, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC

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