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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “This most ancient form of warfare, going back as it has to its earliest beginnings, has become far more important than…”

On the recordJuly 2, 1962
This most ancient form of warfare, going back as it has to its earliest beginnings, has become far more important than it has ever been in the past, and it is going to become more important in the future.
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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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