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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I think it is most important that we also look west across the Pacific, which can be a bridge rather than a barrier…”

On the recordOctober 17, 1963
I think it is most important that we also look west across the Pacific, which can be a bridge rather than a barrier, and, particularly, that we look to the very vital, vigorous, progressive nation of Japan.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks to a Group From the Second U.S.-Japan Conference on Educational and Cultural Interchange.

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