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On the recordSeptember 6, 1963
I know something about the number of men who were lost in that difficult and dangerous service with the Coastal Command, and I take the greatest pride and satisfaction in extending our very best wishes to all of them.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Telephone Remarks to Admiral Reedy and Other Survivors of the Patrol Bomber Squadron in Which the President's Brother...

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