“Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.”
Speech http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-036-014.aspx to the Trustees and Advisory Committee of the National Cultural Center in the White House Movie Theater, 14 November 1961 <br class="br">1961
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