AS I STATED on August 17, on the fourth anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, our vital alliance is perhaps the greatest adventure that this hemisphere has embarked upon since Columbus reached our shore five centuries ago.
Message to the Rio Conference of the Organization of American States
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We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-third.
Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.
Any reservations or withdrawals heretofore made which affect the lands described above are hereby revoked.
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