08/25/1962
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"In these days we depend upon God and we also depend upon our soldiers."
"Never in history has a country had so many of its sons serving so far away from their own land in a time of danger, not for the purpose of conquest but for the purpose of freedom."
"No, I have no plans to visit the African countries."
"Now, it is up to those countries."