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Statement by the President on the Death of Robert Schuman.

September 04, 1963

ROBERT SCHUMAN combined vision with realism. He was a friend of free men everywhere. His proposal for a European Coal and Steel Community marked the beginning of progress toward European unity. Robert Schuman was a citizen of France, Europe, and the world whose passing I mark with great regret.

John F. Kennedy, Statement by the President on the Death of Robert Schuman. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/237357

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