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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.
I have said on many occasions that Pennsylvania is key to the success of this election and also I believe Pennsylvania, a great industrial complex, has seen the effects of 8 years of Republican indifference to the needs of this State and…
I believe the President of the United States in January 1961 should recognize this as a national problem and in every basic industry set up committees of labor, management, and the Government.
The Democratic Party stands for one program and one platform, North and South, East and West.
The decision which you must make between now and November 8 is whether you put your confidence, whether you put your future, in the Democratic Party or in the Republican Party, in Mr. Nixon or myself and I do not believe that that should…
A national campaign provides an opportunity to consider the facts and issues on major problems of our times.
I appreciate the chance to come here to Battle Creek and also to the State of Michigan in this campaign for the Presidency of the United States.
Mr. Nixon pretends he opposes Federal funds for teachers' salaries because he fears 'Government control' over education.
We must improve our education, not only to compete with the Russians but for the sake of education itself.
I believe the central responsibility of the administration that is coming in in January is to maintain full employment.
Lincoln said 100 years ago, ‘The times are new and the perils are new. We must disentangle ourselves from the past.’
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that Divine Justice weighs the sins of the coldblooded and the sins of the warmhearted in a different scale.
If America is to grow and prosper it needs the talents and skills of all its citizens and talent and skill knows no barrier of race or creed.
For I believe that the American people are going to reject a party which - again in Mr. Nixon's words - believes that \unemployment is inevitable.\
I think the United States, if it is going to maintain its independence, if it is going to maintain the independence of those who look to us, I don't want to see the United States - or historians say that in 1960 we stood still.
Every American who seeks a job should have an opportunity to find one.
I hope it is a chance, as it has been in our history, for the United States to make a determination as to what it wants to be and what it must do.
In my judgment, it wants to be not only a great country, which it is; it wants to be a greater country.
Do you know what position the United States holds in radio propaganda broadcasts today? Fourth in the world.
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