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On the recordApril 18, 1963
We have not determined that it is in our national interest or in the general interest of the hemisphere for us to launch an invasion.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks and Question and Answer Period Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

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