“I want to drink a cup of tea to all those Kennedys who went and all those Kennedys who stayed.”

While visiting his ancestral homestead in Wexford, as quoted in BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/27/newsid_4461000/4461115.stm
1963

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