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On the recordOctober 15, 1960
During the American Revolution of 1776, Thomas Paine said, 'The cause of America is the cause of all mankind.'
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of the Honorable John F. Kennedy to the Crowd Assembled Outside Montgomery-Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD

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