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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I don't think that it is any inaccuracy that before this country broke up in 1861 the Democratic Party first broken up…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 1960
I don't think that it is any inaccuracy that before this country broke up in 1861 the Democratic Party first broken up in Charleston, S.C., in 1860.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX

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