Then-candidate John F. Kennedy went there in 1960, and he went deep down in that mine, thousands of feet down in his wing-tip loafers, and he told those miners, you were every bit as important in us winning World War II as the people that were there at the front.
Tiffany emphasizes the historical importance of mining for national security.
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