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On the recordOctober 16, 1960
All America seeks a government where no man holds to his own interest and despises the public interest.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio - (Advance Release Text)

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