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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “This is not an easy year for presidents in the Western Hemisphere, but I think they should judge the tensions and the…”

On the recordJuly 22, 1962
This is not an easy year for presidents in the Western Hemisphere, but I think they should judge the tensions and the difficulties and the turmoil against what we are trying to do, which is the most extraordinary effort to build democratic progressive governments in this hemisphere against a background, in many cases, of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, lack of hope.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Toast of the President at a Luncheon in Honor of President Arosemena

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