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On the recordSeptember 7, 1960
I don't run for the office of the Presidency promising you that if I am elected that life will be easy and the problems all solved
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Rear Platform Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Chico, CA

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