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On the recordMarch 19, 1962
So, Mr. President, for your efforts to win independence for your country, but even more, for your efforts to build a better life for your people, and to play a progressive and liberal and responsible position in the development of Africa, for your strong support for the United Nations--which played a great role, and I hope that the people of this country realize how significant that role was in the independence of your country--for all these things, and most of all because it permits us to establish a contact between the President of a far-off country whose aspirations are for his people--the same as our aspirations are for our people--for all these reasons, Mr. President, you are most welcome to the United States of America.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Welcome to President Olympio of Togo at the Washington National Airport

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