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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.

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Nov 7, 1963

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The United States, in fact all of us, love, I suppose, in a sense, lost causes, and on occasion the history of Scotland has been a lost cause.

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Annually the Committee shall transmit to the President a consolidated report concerning the activities of the Committee and the Citizens' Advisory Council.

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