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On the recordJune 21, 1963
I realize that I am asking the military community to take a leadership role, but I believe that this is proper.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letters to the Secretary of Defense and to the Chairman, Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces, in Response to...

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