John Kennedy actually said...

I recommend that we now join with other nations through UNESCO in preventing what would otherwise be an irreparable loss to science and the cultural history of Mankind.

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Concerning Preservation of Ancient Monuments in the...

04/06/1961

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