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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I request that the leaders of labor unions, civic associations, business groups, and women's clubs, and all consumers…”

On the recordAugust 4, 1963
I request that the leaders of labor unions, civic associations, business groups, and women's clubs, and all consumers join in this observance, along with farm and other rural people, as evidence of the inter-dependence and the strong ties that bind rural and urban citizens.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3547—National Farm-City Week, 1963

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