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On the recordMarch 23, 1961
The controversy referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this order is hereby found to constitute an emergency affecting the national interest within the meaning of the provisions appearing under the heading 'Emergency Fund for the President—National Defense' in Title I of the General Government Matters Appropriation Act, 1961.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Executive Order 10929—Establishing a Commission to Inquire Into a Controversy Between Certain Carriers and Certain of Their...

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The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.

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I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.

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Well, I don't think it is probably useful to discuss it in detail here.

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