John Kennedy actually said...

I want to try to set as my standard the day Abraham Lincoln called his wartime Cabinet together to read to them his draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Excerpts of Remarks by Senator John F. Kennedy, New York Coliseum, New York, NY

11/04/1960

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