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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I come here today with 180 million fellow Americans who want this hemisphere to be free, and who want this hemisphere to…”

On the recordMarch 17, 1963
I come here today with 180 million fellow Americans who want this hemisphere to be free, and who want this hemisphere to be an example to a watching world in the crucial years of this century and this decade.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks Upon Arrival at the Airport, San Jose, Costa Rica

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