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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “If I were Mr. Khrushchev, however, and had spent some time in the West, I would take a somewhat different view of the…”

On the recordJune 1, 1961
If I were Mr. Khrushchev, however, and had spent some time in the West, I would take a somewhat different view of the tide of history.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks and Question and Answer Period at the Press Luncheon in Paris

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