I ask your support not merely for my candidacy or that of my colleagues, but I ask your support in choosing right for this country, in moving this country forward, in picking it up and sending it into the sixties to meet its responsibilities.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I ask your support not merely for my candidacy or that of my colleagues, but I ask your support in choosing right for…”
On the recordNovember 5, 1960
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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Teaneck Armory, Teterboro, NJ
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