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On the recordApril 25, 1961
I am confident that in years to come our two countries will stand as one in safeguarding the greatest of all bonds between us, our common belief in a free and democratic way of life.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to the Government and People of Sierra Leone on the Occasion of Their Independence.

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