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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I want historians to say that these were the years when the American people began to move again”

On the recordSeptember 26, 1960
I want historians to say that these were the years when the American people began to move again
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Mansfield, Ohio

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