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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “He has seen in the past the promise of the future, and has taken his place among those few statesmen of the West, who…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 1963
He has seen in the past the promise of the future, and has taken his place among those few statesmen of the West, who grasped the possibilities and the meaning of history, and thus were able to shape the ultimate course of our own society.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the National Gallery of Art Upon Opening the Mona Lisa Exhibition

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