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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It persuaded people who lived in the underdeveloped countries that the Soviet Union, which was once so far behind, was…”

On the recordOctober 21, 1960
It persuaded people who lived in the underdeveloped countries that the Soviet Union, which was once so far behind, was now the equal and the superior in some degree of the United States.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Shaunee Mission East High School, Kansas City, KS

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