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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “For this government to tell our grain traders that they cannot accept these offers, on the other hand, would accomplish…”

On the recordOctober 9, 1963
For this government to tell our grain traders that they cannot accept these offers, on the other hand, would accomplish little or nothing.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Sale of Wheat to the Soviet Union.

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