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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “A restatement of a traditional position where if a vital area--and I think the area that Mr. Salinger used was West…”

On the recordMarch 28, 1962
A restatement of a traditional position where if a vital area--and I think the area that Mr. Salinger used was West Europe--were being overrun by conventional forces, that the United States would take means, available means, to defend Western Europe.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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