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On the recordJune 10, 1963
I hope to go to Italy within the next 2 weeks and to have a chance to see where it is from whence you came and to say hello to those members of your families who are still waiting at the docks.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks to Delegates of the American Committee on Italian Migration.

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