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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “If the United States is going to maintain its position of being a friend of freedom in Latin America, if we are going to…”

On the recordOctober 13, 1960
If the United States is going to maintain its position of being a friend of freedom in Latin America, if we are going to be successful in this struggle which is now going on, not merely on the island of Cuba, but all over Latin America, we have to be identified, not merely in the fight against communism, but in the fight against poverty and disease, in the fight that those people are waging for a better life for themselves, and in my judgment the United States is not now in their minds identified with that fight.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Albion, MI

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