John Fitzgerald Kennedy said "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." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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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