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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: I said yesterday that I was going to leave a note for my successor which would say, 'To be opened at a time of some…

On the recordJune 25, 1963
I said yesterday that I was going to leave a note for my successor which would say, 'To be opened at a time of some discouragement,' and in it would be written three words: 'Go to Germany.'
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at Tegel Airport, Berlin, Upon Leaving for Ireland

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