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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 20, 1961, until his assassination on November 22, 1963. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Massachusetts and is often remembered for his leadership during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy also established the Peace Corps, promoting international service and cooperation, and he advocated for civil rights, laying the groundwork for future legislation in this area.

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Nov 8, 1960

The whole country is hopeful that your long experience in the service of your country can be drawn upon further in the years to come.

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Nov 8, 1960

I ask your help in this effort and I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

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Nov 6, 1960

I have suggested having a peace corps of young men and women who will be willing to spend 2 or 3 years of their lives as teachers and nurses, working in different countries which are backward and which are just beginning to develop…

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Nov 6, 1960

An enemy supremely confident of its ultimate victory and willing to seek that victory by whatever method seems likely to succeed.

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Nov 6, 1960

Then I believe that we will move toward the day which was promised mankind almost 2,000 years ago, the day when there will be 'peace on earth and good will toward men.'

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Nov 6, 1960

I see no reason why we should journey 3,000 miles to Whittier, Calif., when there is one living in a State 35 miles from here, who comes here and asks your help.

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Nov 6, 1960

Only a strong and vital America can become the model of Democratic progress to the newly emerging nations who are looking for guidance and for help.

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Nov 6, 1960

So I come here to Springfield in the last 12 hours of the presidential campaign of 1960, and I ask your support.

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Nov 6, 1960

From Peiping to Warsaw, from Budapest to Havana, millions of people have lost their freedom.

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Nov 6, 1960

Events and facts have given ominous portent of what is to come

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Nov 6, 1960

Mr. Nixon represents a party which has opposed progress for 25 years, since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.

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Nov 6, 1960

You have to make a choice tomorrow on who shall be the next President of the United States.

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Nov 6, 1960

The view of our responsibilities as citizens of this country, the things we must do in the 1960's to maintain our freedom - whether you agree with that, or whether you agree with Mr. Nixon that we should sit in the sun and let history pass…

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Nov 6, 1960

Our influence in the United Nations dropped until not one of the new African nations voted with us on the question of the admission of Red China

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Nov 6, 1960

I have yet to hear anyone suggest one single piece of progressive legislation he ever sponsored, fought for, or passed in the 14 years that he has been around Washington.

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Nov 6, 1960

We will call for increased concern and effort on the part of every American

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Nov 6, 1960

We must make a choice in this country to pick ourselves up and move forward.

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Nov 6, 1960

I am delighted to have been introduced by the next Senator from the State of Rhode Island, an old friend of mine who will make a great Senator to succeed Senator Green, a great colleague of Senator Pastore, who will speak for the Nation…

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Nov 6, 1960

I would have thought that the humiliating withdrawal of the President's invitation by Khrushchev to visit Russia would have indicated to Mr. Nixon that the new President himself, however distinguished his predecessor, must lay the…

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