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On the recordOctober 11, 1962
Of all the extraordinary feats, I think the first voyage of Columbus must go down as perhaps the most unusual.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks at a Columbus Day Celebration in Newark, New Jersey

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