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On the recordJune 28, 1963
While there may be those removed by two or three generations from Ireland, they may have left 100 years ago their people, and yet when I ask how many people may have relatives in America nearly everybody holds up their hands.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at Shannon Airport Upon Leaving for England.

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