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On the recordJuly 2, 1962
This is not merely a military effort, but it also requires, as I have said, a broad knowledge of the whole development effort of a country, the whole technique of the National Government to identify themselves with the aspirations of people.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks to Members of a Special Seminar of the foreign Service Institute.

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