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On the recordApril 9, 1963
The example of men and women rendering full-time service within the corps should motivate additional Americans to volunteer their services in their own communities.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House Proposing the Establishment of a National Service...

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