How JFK stole his 'ask not what your country can do' speech from his old headmaster. It became one of the most famous political speeches in history. But according to a new book, John F Kennedy<span> stole what was to become the best-known quote of his 1961 inaugural address
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Maine admitted as free state and Missouri a slave state, preserved sectional balance of senate, Louisiana territory split b/w slaveholders and free settlers, south=slavery was legal, north= slavery banned (except Missouri), slavery in federal territories settled, slavery legal south of dividing line, Maine and Missouri= free states, settle slave issue temporarily