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On the recordOctober 24, 1960
This election ought to be won in these areas surrounding the great cities, the suburbs, suburbia, or whatever you may call it, people who make an independent judgment on what is best for their State, their families, their country, the cause of freedom.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, O'Hare Inn, Des Plaines, IL

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