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On the recordFebruary 13, 1963
Nowhere is the profile of the best of American youth better drawn than in our Peace Corps volunteers.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.

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