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On the recordMarch 17, 1963
This does represent the most direct challenge that the free world has, I believe, here in Central America and in Latin America.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Toast of the President at a Dinner at the Casa Presidencial in San Jose

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