“a stunning failure of leadership”
“any external aggressor will clash with an impregnable resistance.”
“This budget is the epitome of 'America Last.'”
“We are unstoppable.”
“Everything will get better.”
“I vowed not to let Israel or America’s friends in the Persian Gulf 'get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form.'”

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On the recordFebruary 13, 1963
Nowhere is the profile of the best of American youth better drawn than in our Peace Corps volunteers.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.

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