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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist and a sculptor, an architect and a scientist, and a military engineer, an…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 1963
Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist and a sculptor, an architect and a scientist, and a military engineer, an occupation which he pursued, he tells us, in order to preserve the chief gift of nature, which is liberty.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the National Gallery of Art Upon Opening the Mona Lisa Exhibition

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