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On the recordMarch 18, 1963
Those are the things which together we must achieve for our people, and I want to assure you through the Alliance for Progress we will stand and work shoulder to shoulder in making this hemisphere an example of what democracy can mean.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at El Bosque Housing Project Near San Jose.

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