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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I recommend that we now join with other nations through UNESCO in preventing what would otherwise be an irreparable loss…”

On the recordApril 6, 1961
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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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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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...

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