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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Nature has been very good to us--to live in peace here and to live in a world of diversity, a world of free, sovereign…”

On the recordOctober 16, 1963
Nature has been very good to us--to live in peace here and to live in a world of diversity, a world of free, sovereign, and independent countries, all of whom are able to go about developing a more fruitful life for their own people, that is the grand objective of the United States, the object of our foreign policy and, internally, the objective of our domestic policy.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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