The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.”
On the recordFebruary 13, 1963
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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.
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