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On the recordMarch 20, 1963
If there is a chance to get it to the United States, we will strongly support it, and if Detroit is chosen, I would certainly be wholly in favor of the United States doing everything it could to make it a success.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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