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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The ideals of peace, freedom, and human progress are again threatened by forces intent on subverting them, and a…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 1961
The ideals of peace, freedom, and human progress are again threatened by forces intent on subverting them, and a rededication of those determined to strengthen the inter-American system is required
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3392—Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1961

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