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On the recordDecember 16, 1961
I return tonight to the United States, and I do not want to leave without saying to the people of Colombia that my wife and I have received the most heart-warming welcome that we have ever received.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the El Dorado Airport Upon Leaving for the United States.

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