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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “It requires a knowledge far beyond the usual technical subjects which occupy so much of our military studies.”

On the recordMarch 28, 1962
It requires a knowledge far beyond the usual technical subjects which occupy so much of our military studies.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Inter-American Defense Board

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