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On the recordAugust 25, 1962
These are but two examples of the areas you are attacking where this type of discrimination has prevented the full use of talents and skills.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Letter to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on Receiving Report by the Commission on the Status of Women.

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