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Remarks at the Swearing In of Fowler Hamilton as Administrator of the Agency for International Development.

October 03, 1961

I WANT to express our great pleasure at participating in the swearing in of Mr. Fowler Hamilton to be the head of the new AID program. And it is a great pleasure to have the Justice join us in making this ceremony legal.

Mr. Hamilton assumes a major responsibility, and I am delighted that he has accepted it. Our hopes are very high for this Agency, and I think that his assumption of responsibility gets us off to a most promising start.

I am glad that the members of his family are here also.

Note: The President spoke in the Fish Room at the White House. In his opening remarks he referred to Justice Charles E. Whittaker, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

John F. Kennedy, Remarks at the Swearing In of Fowler Hamilton as Administrator of the Agency for International Development. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235702

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