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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The impression that we, all of us, from the United States carry back is of the hands of friendship which have been…”

On the recordMarch 19, 1963
The impression that we, all of us, from the United States carry back is of the hands of friendship which have been extended to us and the strong feeling that while we came in a sense as strangers 3 days ago, we leave tonight as friends.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at El Coco Airport, Costa Rica, Upon Leaving for the United States.

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