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On the recordDecember 16, 1961
I think this visit--I hope--has pleased our friends--confounded our enemies; and I think that it has brought our two countries, whose fate has been so interwoven from our earliest days, closer together.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Maiquetia Airport Upon Leaving for Colombia.

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