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On the recordApril 25, 1961
It is with special pleasure, therefore, that we witness the assumption by this new nation of its sovereign place in the world community.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to the Government and People of Sierra Leone on the Occasion of Their Independence.

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