11/17/1963
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"I think the United States, if it is going to maintain its independence, if it is going to maintain the independence of those who look to us, I don't want to see the United States - or historians say t..."
"I hope it is a chance, as it has been in our history, for the United States to make a determination as to what it wants to be and what it must do."
"In my judgment, it wants to be not only a great country, which it is; it wants to be a greater country."
"This issue separates Mr. Nixon and myself and it separates the Republican and Democratic Parties."