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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The existence of this new Agency is a source of strength to me, in the performance of my responsibility to pursue a new…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 1962
The existence of this new Agency is a source of strength to me, in the performance of my responsibility to pursue a new type of world security which will increase our own prospects of living in peace and freedom.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to the Congress Transmitting First Annual Report of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

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