“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”

"Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act," Hyde Park, New York (14 August 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 910, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
1960

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35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

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