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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I find it to be in the national interest that the amount of the quotas for sugar and for liquid sugar for Cuba pursuant…”

On the recordMarch 30, 1961
I find it to be in the national interest that the amount of the quotas for sugar and for liquid sugar for Cuba pursuant to the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, for the calendar year 1961 should be zero.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 3401—Determination of Cuban Sugar Quota to Supplement the Quota Established by Proclamation No. 3383

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