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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I think that in the summer of 1961-and of course this all may come again--we were calling up reserves in preparation for…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1963
I think that in the summer of 1961-and of course this all may come again--we were calling up reserves in preparation for what might be a collision of major proportions between the Soviet Union and the United States in Berlin.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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