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Asked by one journalist why he was pressing for a perjury charge against a labor leader, he said the man had led “a commie strike.” Richard Nixon recalled in his memoir that during the 1960 presidential debates, “Kennedy conveyed the image — to 60 million people — that he was tougher on Castro and communism than I was.” At the Mormon Tabernacle in 1960, Kennedy said, “The enemy is the communist system itself — implacable, insatiable, unceasing in its drive for world domination.” And at Berlin in 1963, Kennedy said, “There are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin.”