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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is with special pleasure, therefore, that we witness the assumption by this new nation of its sovereign place in the…”

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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