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John F. Kennedy: “Our success in world affairs has long depended in part upon foreign confidence in our ability to pay.”

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Our success in world affairs has long depended in part upon foreign confidence in our ability to pay.
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John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy stresses the importance of foreign confidence in the U.S. for success in international affairs.

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