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On the recordJune 24, 1963
What I hope remains between the United States and Germany is not only a strong feeling of sympathy and friendship, but also a recognition in this great struggle in which we now exist, this great struggle to which we have devoted our lives: the struggle to maintain freedom and expand it throughout the world.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Romerberg in Frankfurt.

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