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“I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy: "Dear Jack – Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary – I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."”

— John F. Kennedy

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Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy
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Context

Remarks at "The Gridiron Club, Washington, D.C. (March 15, 1958); Box 899, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers; Box 29, David F. Powers Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Speeches File

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Kennedy, John F.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John F. Kennedy. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

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