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Kennedy, John F. Annotated Presidential campaign speech Kennedy, John F. Annotated Presidential campaign speech, 13 pages (8 ½ x 11 in.; 215 x 279 mm.), Warm Springs, Georgia, 10 October 1960. Over 20 words and corrections in Kennedy's hand (including penned underscores for emphasis), being his "fair reading copy" that he actually read from when he delivered his speech at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's home in Warm Springs, Georgia. This speech firmly documents his plan of social reform and closes with a statement reminiscent of his Inaugural Address just a few months later, "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Minor soiling and wrinkling. John F. Kennedy's personally-annotated Presidential campaign speech delivered at F.D.R.'s home in Warm Springs, Georgia - "...to open new doors to the negro." Brief excerpts from the speech: "It is a deep privilege to speak here in Warm Springs, no Democrat (no American) - (especially) and particularly no Democrat who aspires to be President - can stand on this spot without mingled feelings of awe (admiration) for the great man who lived here, worked here and died here. Franklin Roosevelt was the champion of little children, his heart went out to those who were handicapped as he had been and to those who were poor as he never had been. Franklin Roosevelt knew who had been ignored and omitted by 12 years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover and he set about to help them - to remember the forgotten man, to light the farms, to help the aged, to protect the worker, to open new doors to the negro, to care for the needs of millions of Americans in a thousand different ways. Those who had previously held a monopoly on the government's attention denounced the New Deal as the road to socialism and bankruptcy. Can anyone imagine this nation without Social Security, without unemployment compensation and old age assistance, without minimum wages and maximum working hours, without federal guarantees of collective bargaining without protection for our farmers? Franklin Roosevelt's record in the advancement of health care was tremendous. In no area is progress more vitally needed than the area of health. The cost of medical care has skyrocketed beyond the reach of many citizens - and yet the present administration requires them to take a 'pauper's oath' before they can receive assistance. This is not a program for socialized medicine - it is a program to prevent socialized medicine, by meeting our critical needs in a manner consistent with our obligation to freedom and the doctor's obligation to humanity. In meeting these problems - as in meeting all the problems that press in upon us in the Sixties, problems of falling farm income, unemployment, race relations, housing, education and, above all, problems of war and peace - our task is not light. Our responsibilities are many. Our critics will be strong. But I ask you to remember that, here at Warm Springs, they found among Frankllin Roosevelt's papers a speech he had written but never delivered - and it closed with these words: 'The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.' This John F. Kennedy campaign speech was found amongst the papers of Robert Troutman, Jr., a 1942 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was a roommate of JFK's older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Troutman was a Kennedy lieutenant during the campaign in 1960 and became a member of Kennedy's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. From there, he developed Plans for Progress, a program to induce many of the nation's largest corporations to hire and promote black employees.