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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Most countries send out oil or iron, steel or gold or some other crop, but Ireland has had only one export and that is…”

On the recordJune 27, 1963
Most countries send out oil or iron, steel or gold or some other crop, but Ireland has had only one export and that is its people.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the City Hall in Cork.

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