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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We would certainly be foolish to halt the sale of our wheat when other countries can buy that wheat from us today and…”

On the recordOctober 9, 1963
We would certainly be foolish to halt the sale of our wheat when other countries can buy that wheat from us today and then sell it as flour to the Communists.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Sale of Wheat to the Soviet Union.

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