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On the recordJune 4, 1962
I cannot imagine better representatives of what we like to think our country stands for than the four men who have taken part in flights.
Said by
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks of Welcome to Astronaut and Mrs. Scott Carpenter

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