NOTE TO FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN REGARDING THE CUBAN REFUGEE PROGRAM. Typed Note Signed ("John Kennedy") with annotation, 1 p, 4to, Washington, DC, January 28, 1961, to Dante Fascell, on mint green White House stationery, two holes punched at upper margin, staple perforation to upper left corner, some thumbing to leaf. On January 27, 1961, John Kennedy instructed Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff to aid exiles from Castro's Cuba in their repatriation to the United States. Ribicoff formulated the Cuban Refugee Program, a comprehensive assistance program to provide refugees with money, food, medical care, and social services. During the twenty years of its existence, the program aided over one million Cuban exiles; in spite of outcry from the Cuban community, the program was discontinued in 1981 by the Reagan administration. Kennedy sends this short note to Florida congressman from Dade and Monroe counties, Dante Fascell, who would, of course, have great interest in any federal program established in Miami. In full: "Dear Congressman [deleted, with 'Dante' added in pen]: / I believe you may be interested in the full text of my letters late yesterday to Secretary Ribicoff and Tracy Voorhees concerning the Cuban refugee situation in Florida. / Sincerely, / John Kennedy " Voorhees, a former Under Secretary of the U.S. Army, was the President's personal representative for Cuban refugees from 1960 to 1961.
NOTE TO FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN REGARDING THE CUBAN REFUGEE PROGRAM. Typed Note Signed ("John Kennedy") with annotation, 1 p, 4to, Washington, DC, January 28, 1961, to Dante Fascell, on mint green White House stationery, two holes punched at upper margin, staple perforation to upper left corner, some thumbing to leaf. On January 27, 1961, John Kennedy instructed Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff to aid exiles from Castro's Cuba in their repatriation to the United States. Ribicoff formulated the Cuban Refugee Program, a comprehensive assistance program to provide refugees with money, food, medical care, and social services. During the twenty years of its existence, the program aided over one million Cuban exiles; in spite of outcry from the Cuban community, the program was discontinued in 1981 by the Reagan administration. Kennedy sends this short note to Florida congressman from Dade and Monroe counties, Dante Fascell, who would, of course, have great interest in any federal program established in Miami. In full: "Dear Congressman [deleted, with 'Dante' added in pen]: / I believe you may be interested in the full text of my letters late yesterday to Secretary Ribicoff and Tracy Voorhees concerning the Cuban refugee situation in Florida. / Sincerely, / John Kennedy " Voorhees, a former Under Secretary of the U.S. Army, was the President's personal representative for Cuban refugees from 1960 to 1961.
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