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On the recordMay 4, 1961
I do want to say, speaking personally, that as President Bourguiba's visit here in Washington comes to an end, and as he sets out for his visit to the Tennessee Valley, to Texas, to New York, that this country and the Government, Members of the Congress, and speaking as the President, have taken the greatest possible satisfaction in his visit here.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Exchange of Remarks in the Rose Garden With President Bourguiba of Tunisia.

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