John Kennedy actually said...

We have been the keystone in the arch--the 180 million Americans carrying on a worldwide struggle against the Sino-Soviet bloc, composed of more than a billion people.

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Remarks in San Diego at the Marine Corps Recruit Dept.

06/05/1963

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