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On the recordApril 18, 1963
I share the Commission's stated goal of assuring for all citizens of the United States the full enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter to the Chairman in Response to a Report on Mississippi by the Civil Rights Commission

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