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On the recordSeptember 26, 1963
In looking at the natural resources of the United States, I could not return to Washington safely without coming here to Tongue Point.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Tongue Point, Oregon.

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