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On the recordOctober 25, 1960
Do you know that 35 percent of our brightest boys and girls who graduate from high school never see the inside of a college?
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Roseville, MI, Eastgate Shopping Center

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