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On the recordSeptember 15, 1963
I am confident that this year, as in the past, we will break new ground in the effort to provide for a more peaceful world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Swearing In of Representatives and Alternates to the 18th U.N. General Assembly.

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