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On the recordJune 27, 1962
This started out, as Mrs. Kennedy tells in her foreword, to be, in a sense, a book for boys and girls so that they would get more out of their visit to the White House.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at the Presentation to President and Mrs. Kennedy of Copies of a New White House Guide Book.

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