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On the recordJuly 23, 1963
This belongs to all of you and because it is so intimately connected with the best in American history.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks to Delegates to the 18th Annual American Legion 'Boys Nation.'

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