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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The United States cannot afford to renounce responsibility for support of the very fundamentals which distinguish our…”

On the recordJuly 21, 1963
The United States cannot afford to renounce responsibility for support of the very fundamentals which distinguish our concept of government from all forms of tyranny.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Letter to the President of the Senate in Regard to Three International Human Rights Conventions.

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