John Kennedy actually said...

The United States made a determination on three different occasions in this century, in 1917, in 1941, in 1948 and '49, that the security of my country must inevitably be linked with the security of a free Europe.

Context

Remarks at SHAPE Headquarters in Paris.

06/01/1961

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