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On the recordOctober 10, 1963
In the time I have been here, she visited the White House on five or six occasions and on each of those occasions her visit was connected with some phase of her horizon-wide interest in life and in people.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Ceremony Marking the Issuance of the Eleanor Roosevelt Commemorative Stamp

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