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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Are we going to have vote after vote which this country needs defeated by 3, 4, or 5, or are we going to elect a…”

On the recordOctober 12, 1962
Are we going to have vote after vote which this country needs defeated by 3, 4, or 5, or are we going to elect a Congress which is committed to progress, which this country so desperately needs in a difficult and dangerous world?
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Remarks at the Court House, Washington, Pennsylvania

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