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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “This is a contest between the comfortable and the concerned, and here in Brooklyn they are concerned as they are all…”

On the recordOctober 19, 1960
This is a contest between the comfortable and the concerned, and here in Brooklyn they are concerned as they are all over America.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Martin's Store, Fulton and Duffield, Brooklyn, NY

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