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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “So I come here today asking your help, not for the election of 1962, though I will then, and 1964, but in the coming…”

On the recordDecember 6, 1961
So I come here today asking your help, not for the election of 1962, though I will then, and 1964, but in the coming months, so that this session of Congress will be fruitful.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in Miami at the Young Democrats Convention.

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