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On the recordSeptember 4, 1963
One of our guests here this evening, Ambassador Guggenheim, told me early this evening that when he went to Cuba as our ambassador in the administration of Herbert Hoover that President Hoover said to him that the United States had two problems in foreign policy--Cuba and Mexico.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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