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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We have learned in the last 60 years how to fly better than the birds--or at least higher and longer.”

On the recordApril 18, 1961
We have learned in the last 60 years how to fly better than the birds--or at least higher and longer.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks Upon Awarding the National Geographic Society Gold Medal to Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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