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On the recordOctober 13, 1960
Lincoln said 100 years ago, ‘The times are new and the perils are new. We must disentangle ourselves from the past.’
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Saginaw, MI, Fair Grounds

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