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- , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a
speech writer.
(Laughter)
But I have come on to much more exalted planes.
Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I
think Mr. [Robert "Bob
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dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told
Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be
in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it
ex.ct!pt th,":lt he
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