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On the recordJanuary 7, 1963
There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. They are real, though exaggerated.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the National Gallery of Art Upon Opening the Mona Lisa Exhibition

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