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On the recordOctober 23, 1960
I run for the Presidency in the most serious time in the life of our country and these issues involve the security of everybody here.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, University of Illinois Campus, Champaign-Urbana, IL

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