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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “France and the United States have been associated in the past in many great causes, but I can think of no more happy…”

On the recordMay 30, 1961
France and the United States have been associated in the past in many great causes, but I can think of no more happy cause than to be associated together in the climactic moment in the defense of freedom.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks Upon Arrival at Orly Airport in Paris

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