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    "description": "This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's address to the 18th General Assembly of the United Nations. In his speech the President discusses the recently signed treaty banning atmospheric nuclear weapons tests (later known as the Partial Test Ban Treaty or Limited Test Ban Treaty), remarking that peace may be attainable when two nations with incompatible ideologies negotiate with each other. The President famously asks, \"Space offers no problems of sovereignty…Why, therefore, should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition?\" President Kennedy also explains that the task of maintaining peace and decreasing global tension must be shared by all nations. He proposes ways for the United Nations to increase and improve their efforts in developing countries, specifically focusing on health, human rights, agriculture, communication, and the environment. Materials in this folder include drafts by Special Assistant to the President and speechwriter Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., a press copy, and a reading copy of the speech with handwritten notations by the President, in addition to memoranda from Schlesinger and Adlai Stevenson, Ambassador to the United Nations.",
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    "ocrText": "CONFIDENTIAL\n21.\nix\nBut the full vindication of the idea of human rights requires\nmore than simply the protection of individuals against discrimination\nand persecution. It requires in addition the support of the individual\nin the affirmative exercise of these rights and, above all, in his need\nto reach out to others -- to make contacts, to exchange ideas and to\nwork toward a better under standing of his fellow human beings. In\nthe long run, the hope of peace will stand or fall on the conviction that\nmankind has common interests and men will achieve this conviction\nonly as they are free to communicate with other men in other lands.\nI hope that in due course this Assembly will extend its attention\nto the promotion of international understanding through the increase\nand improvement of communications. If the world begins to renounce\nthe competition of weapons, we are still left with the competition of\nideas -- and every society with confidence in its own ideas will wish\nto make that competition as full and fair as possible.\nLet us consider some things the United Nations might do.\nMembers of this body could take steps to facilitate reciprocal travel,\nincluding low-cost tours, to make it possible for citizens of one\ncountry to visit another country. They could enlarge programs of\neducational and cultural exchange and welcome visiting scholars and\nCONFIDENTIAL"
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