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On the recordOctober 18, 1963
There are one million Americans today, tonight, serving the United States overseas.
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Joseph Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks in Boston at the 'New England's Salute to the President' Dinner

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Nov 4, 1963

Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

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Nov 7, 1963

Nearly 2 years ago my wife and I visited Bogota, Colombia, where a vast new Alliance for Progress housing project was just getting under way.

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Nov 7, 1963

We are attempting, in cooperation with the State and the city, as Reverend Potter described, to carry out a pilot program here in the city of New York, but it is only a beginning, and there are hundreds of thousands without resources, and we have a responsibility to all of them.

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