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On the recordNovember 7, 1963
Nearly 2 years ago my wife and I visited Bogota, Colombia, where a vast new Alliance for Progress housing project was just getting under way.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York.

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