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On the recordOctober 13, 1960
I hope it is a chance, as it has been in our history, for the United States to make a determination as to what it wants to be and what it must do.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Capitol Steps, Lansing, MI

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