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On the recordMay 22, 1963
Last year I won the award and they came to Washington to present it to me, but the Secret Service just wouldn't let them in!
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the New York Birthday Salute to the President.

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