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On the recordApril 1, 1963
Freedom is not on the run anywhere in the world--not in Europe, Asia, Africa, or Latin America--as it might well have been without U.S. aid.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress on Free World Defense and Assistance Programs.

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