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On the recordMay 31, 1961
In many ways, the experience of Europe in the last 10 years has confounded all of those who believed that the tide of history was running against us.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Paris Before the North Atlantic Council.

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