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1960: President-Elect Kennedy
"On election morning this week, the rising orange sun flashed on the Boston steeples and rooftops and glanced through the mist on the old streets as John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his expecting wife drove to the stately West End (Congregational) Church in the Sixth Ward to vote. It was, symbolically, Jack Kennedy's rising sun, heralding the greatest triumph of all for the Kennedy Clan."
From: Man of the New Frontier, Nov. 16, 1960
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