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On the recordApril 17, 1963
We are delighted to have her here and also because she is her mother's daughter, who is so highly regarded here, and her father's daughter, who has worked so hard to make a reality of the general aspirations of which I spoke.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Toasts of the President and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

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