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“The essence of the Kennedy legacy,” Robert Kennedy once said of his brother, “is a willingness to try and to dare and to change, to hope the uncertain and to risk the unknown.”1 The New Pacific Community reflected this approach to policy; however, its mission always remained beyond the realm of possibility. This specific expression of American ambition died with the President in Dallas.
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Maga, T.P. (1990). Conclusions. In: John F. Kennedy and the New Pacific Community, 1961–63. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20660-5_7
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