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On the recordJuly 22, 1962
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.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

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

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