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On the recordMay 7, 1961
I express in my own name and in the name of the American people our most sincere hope that this Conference will achieve a full measure of practical success.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Message to President Tubman of Liberia on the Occasion of the Monrovia Conference of African States.

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