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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “There is a feeling, I think, in the foreign Service, that the State Department and the foreign Service are constantly…”

On the recordJuly 1, 1962
There is a feeling, I think, in the foreign Service, that the State Department and the foreign Service are constantly under attack.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Excerpts from Address at a Meeting of the American foreign Service Association.

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