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On the recordOctober 14, 1960
I am willing to debate the wisdom of challenging the Red Chinese to a nuclear war over a couple of islands that every military authority says are strategically worthless and which cannot be defended except by nuclear war.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks by Senator John F. Kennedy, Sharon, PA - (Advance Release Text)

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