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On the recordOctober 9, 1963
I think it honors an extraordinary page in American history, as well as in the history of flight.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks Upon Presenting the Collier Trophy to the First U.S. Astronauts

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