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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Yours was an exacting assignment, requiring vigor, intelligence, understanding of farm problems and a sympathy for the…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1962
Yours was an exacting assignment, requiring vigor, intelligence, understanding of farm problems and a sympathy for the under-privileged of the world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter Accepting Resignation of George McGovern as Director of the food for Peace Program.

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