John Kennedy actually said...

We sometimes take some encouragement in the fact that there are so many obvious evidences of a desire of people to be free and a desire of people to maintain their anti-Communist position.

Context

Remarks to Members of a Special Seminar of the foreign Service Institute.

07/02/1962

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