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On the recordOctober 16, 1960
I do not want our politics colored by considerations of national security, and I do not want our national security colored by considerations of politics.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Wittenberg College Stadium, Springfield, Ohio

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