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On the recordDecember 14, 1961
The campaign of force and terror now being waged against your people and your Government is supported and directed from the outside by the authorities at Hanoi.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Exchange of Messages With the President of the Republic of Viet-Nam.

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