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On the recordDecember 16, 1961
It is, it seems to me, obligatory upon all those of us who believe in freedom to work together to make freedom, as you have said, Mr. President, not merely an abstraction or a phrase, but to demonstrate that under a system of freedom people can live the kind of dignified, productive life to which they all aspire.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the El Dorado Airport Upon Leaving for the United States.

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