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On the recordJanuary 18, 1963
Documents are the primary sources of history; they are the means by which later generations draw close to historical events and enter into the thoughts, fears and hopes of the past.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter to the Administrator of General Services in Response to a Report of the National Historical Publications Commission.

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