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On the recordOctober 23, 1960
I want the people of the world to wake up in the morning and wonder what the United States is doing, not what Mr. Khrushchev is doing.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, University of Illinois Campus, Champaign-Urbana, IL

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