John Kennedy actually said...

This country has committed itself along with Ecuador and our sister republics to a great Alliance for Progress, which is a common effort by all of us to provide a decent life for the people of our hemisphere, an opportunity to work, to be educated, to find jobs, to find security.

Context

Remarks of Welcome to President Arosemena of Ecuador at the Washington National Airport

07/22/1962

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