Biden pushes efforts to end cancer on 60th anniversary of JFK's 'moonshot' speech
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On the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's famous moonshot speech, President Joe Biden on Monday is set out to lay out his new plan for a new "American Moonshot," an effort aimed at eradicating cancer "as we know it."
"This is a, all the way back '62, the moonshot was announced, we're gonna have a moonshot for cancer, for real. We're gonna cure cancer over time. I'm gonna lay out how we're gonna do that," Biden said Monday morning as he departed Washington for Boston, Massachusetts.
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