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On the recordOctober 21, 1960
The point I want to make, however, is that most of the difficult decisions which the next President will meet will involve problems about which we have thought very little.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Shaunee Mission East High School, Kansas City, KS

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