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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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