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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It is a great pleasure to welcome you here as President of your country, and it does give us an opportunity to reaffirm…”

On the recordJuly 22, 1962
It is a great pleasure to welcome you here as President of your country, and it does give us an opportunity to reaffirm and restate the great interest which this Government and country has in the development of mutually beneficial and satisfactory relations between the countries of Latin America and the countries of North America, between Ecuador and the United States.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Welcome to President Arosemena of Ecuador at the Washington National Airport

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