I believe such a resolution can be found, and with it an improvement in our relations with the Soviet Union, if only the leaders in the Kremlin will recognize the basic rights and interests involved, and the interest of all mankind in…
John F. Kennedy
The Public Record
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
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Every member of NATO stands with us in a common commitment to preserve this symbol of free man's will to remain free.
It is a war of attempted subjugation--and it will be resisted.
These programs help people; and, by helping people, they help freedom.
A newly-expanded Food for Peace Program is feeding the hungry of many lands with the abundance of our productive farms--providing lunches for children in school, wages for economic development, relief for the victims of flood and famine…
A newly conceived Peace Corps is winning friends and helping people in fourteen countries--supplying trained and dedicated young men and women, to give these new nations a hand in building a society, and a glimpse of the best that is in…
And while the blight of communism has been increasingly exposed and isolated in the Americas, liberty has scored a gain.
This Nation has the will and the faith to make a supreme effort to break the log jam on disarmament and nuclear tests--and we will persist until we prevail, until the rule of law has replaced the ever dangerous use of force.
Nor has mankind survived the tests and trials of thousands of years to surrender everything--including its existence--now.
But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
The vast resources of this planet are being devoted more and more to the means of destroying, instead of enriching, human life.
World order will be secured only when the whole world has laid down these weapons which seem to offer us present security but threaten the future survival of the human race.