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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Because I don't think the British wanted to put the kind of investment we are talking about into the development of…”

On the recordDecember 30, 1962
Because I don't think the British wanted to put the kind of investment we are talking about into the development of Polaris, which would cost them a good deal of money, unless they felt there might come an occasion, conceivably, where the British would be alone and would need this force.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Partial Transcript of a Background Press Interview at Palm Beach.

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