07/01/1964
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"Under our democratic system, in less than 1 year from that day, you must decide whether I should step aside and whether I should move over, and whether you should have another leader."
"They tell me--I asked Nancy Gore this afternoon--someone told me that I was running about 55-45 down here in Tennessee."
"Tennessee needs him in the Senate and the Nation needs him in the Senate."
"Healthy competition can be a spur to bring out the best in all of us, and international understanding that leads to peace is possible even in the presently troubled world."