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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We must increase our support of the United Nations as an instrument to end the Cold War instead of an arena in which to…”

On the recordJanuary 29, 1961
We must increase our support of the United Nations as an instrument to end the Cold War instead of an arena in which to fight it.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union

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