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On the recordJanuary 3, 1963
The draft test ban treaties and the United States outline disarmament treaty introduced by you into the Geneva negotiations were the most serious and far-reaching documents of this character which the United States had ever put forward.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Letter Accepting Resignation of Arthur H. Dean as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Geneva Disarmament Committee.

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