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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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Oct 13, 1962

Yes, well that's right. I think that by November 6 we'll have traveled more than any President and almost as much as all of them in this century in an off year, but that's partly because of jet planes.

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Oct 13, 1962

That is a proud role which we did not seek, but from which we do not flinch.

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Oct 13, 1962

Why do we have difficulty passing a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour?

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Oct 13, 1962

The decision which is made in the next 30 days is going to decide what kind of a Congress we're going to have for the next 2 years.

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Oct 13, 1962

Even with 19 Republicans voting with us in the House, only by 5 votes, and we don't get 19 Republicans any more, you can just see how closely divided the House and Senate is, even though the party labels give a different impression.

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Oct 13, 1962

I have issued proclamations endorsed by this Congress to that effect.

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Oct 12, 1962

I hope you send him back because he is a distinguished Congressman and, more important than that, he is a distinguished American who stands for the best that is in this country.

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Oct 12, 1962

I am proud to stand here, although I am not a candidate for office, and in all good faith ask you to give us some people who in 1963 and '64 will build a strong America upon which the world depends.

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Oct 12, 1962

How can we possibly provide for the education of our children, jobs for our people, medical care for our older citizens, better housing, jobs, jobs, jobs, if we are going to lose 39 votes after we have won and lost bill after bill by 3, 4…

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Oct 12, 1962

Do you know that every single Congressman in this State voted against our feed grain bill, every Republican Congressman, which has helped increase the farm income on the average on every family farm in this State by 13 percent?

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Oct 12, 1962

Seventy-eight percent of the Republican members of the Senate voted against medical care for the aged under Social Security.

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Oct 12, 1962

I want to express to you our very great pleasure for coming out on a Saturday morning.

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Oct 12, 1962

The fact of the matter is, when this administration came to power, in spite of the fact we had commitments around the globe, we had 11 divisions, 11 Army divisions, to meet responsibilities stretching from Viet-Nam to Berlin.

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Oct 12, 1962

I have had an opportunity to examine with some care and some interest the record of the Republican Party, and I can tell you, in case you don't know it, that it is opposed, year in, year out, in the administration of Harry Truman in 1947…

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Oct 12, 1962

Every Republican Congressman from this State voted against aid to dependent children.

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Oct 12, 1962

Are we going to have vote after vote which this country needs defeated by 3, 4, or 5, or are we going to elect a Congress which is committed to progress, which this country so desperately needs in a difficult and dangerous world?

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Oct 12, 1962

And I think that in this case you have distinguished candidates in this State: Elmer Holland, who wrote one of the most important pieces of legislation in the last 10 years, and that is legislation to retrain men and women who have worked…

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Oct 12, 1962

It is all of our business, because there isn't any doubt that all of the things that can make a difference to this town and other towns which have been hard hit by all of the technological and industrial changes that have come in this…

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Oct 12, 1962

I want to be sure in the 1970's that there are the people of this country who are the beneficiaries of what we did on the New Frontiers of 1962.

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Oct 12, 1962

Every generation faces different problems and every generation must come up with new solutions.

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Oct 12, 1962

Are we going to organize the Congress of the United States in January 1963, after losing 39 votes in the House?

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Oct 12, 1962

I think it is a good thing he is there because when this bill came up in the House of Representatives, 88 percent of the Republican Members of the House voted 'no.'

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Oct 12, 1962

I am delighted to come to Indiana because there isn't any State in the Union in this election that has the privilege of making a clearer choice, a clearer choice especially for the United States Senate.

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