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On the recordNovember 28, 1962
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of imperial Athens are gone.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at a Close & Circuit Television Broadcast on Behalf of the National Cultural Center.

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