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On the recordSeptember 19, 1963
The United Nations has been criticized, has been under attack, for a good many years, but as Mr. Frost has said about not taking down a wall until you know why it is put up, if there wasn't a United Nations we would certainly have to invent one.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in New York City to Staff Members of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations.

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