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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “MR. SECRETARY, I want to express our great pleasure at removing the Mayor from the position of Mayor of Cleveland and…”

On the recordJuly 30, 1962
MR. SECRETARY, I want to express our great pleasure at removing the Mayor from the position of Mayor of Cleveland and making him Secretary of HEW
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Anthony J. Celebrezze as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

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