Sean F. Lemass. who welcomed President Kennedy to Ireland in June 1963. and was the Presidents guest at the White House in October 1963. said of President Kennedy after the tragic assassination: Naturally John Kennedys IrishAmerican background quickened our interest in his career and leadership. The rise to the august position of President of the United States of the descendant of Irish emigrants who found refuge in America over a century ago. driven on as the late President himself said by famine and hope. is part of the great American epic and part. too. of the reason why every man who values freedom and democracy has a deeprooted interest in the continuing welfare of the United States. But our real appreciation and love for President Kennedy was for reasons more profound than his bloodties with Ireland. We. in common with people everywhere. admired a real human being who gave the world inspired leadership and whose heroic courage and cool judgment brought about a new atmosphere of confidence and hope and elicited universal trust and faith.
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