05/14/1961
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"Your own efforts to maintain the independence and viability of your country are well known here."
"Your country occupies a most significant, strategic position in the world today."
"They have all been unusually fortunate in their wives and in their children, and we want them to know that they have served their country, all of them, in a way which I am sure for the rest of their l..."
"We want to express our very warm welcome to our distinguished visitor who comes from a most ancient country, representing a most ancient people, and also a young country."