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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “If you are concerned with the Republican tendency to react instead of act - to become preoccupied with only responding…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 1960
If you are concerned with the Republican tendency to react instead of act - to become preoccupied with only responding to communism instead of also advancing freedom - then I suggest you consider more closely the foreign policy experience of their presidential nominee.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Fund-Raising Dinner, Syracuse, NY - (Advance Release Text)

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